[quote Jourdain11]**@Em777* it's more deadly because it's more contagious, it isn't more deadly and* more contagious. It's good to be clear about that.
In my view, snooping on your neighbours and guilt-tripping people is not taking care of each other. I'm sorry, but I just can't change my opinion about that![/quote]
But is more deadly and contagious. The death rate is between 0.25-0.66%, that’s significantly higher than the flu.
For example, from a report today:
Roughly a year into the pandemic it is clear the new coronavirus is worse than seasonal flu, and a study released on Friday outlined just how much worse, showing a death rate almost three times higher among Covid-19 patients.
The research, using French national data and published in the journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, underscored the increased severity of illness for people with Covid-19.
Researchers compared data for 89,530 patients hospitalised with Covid-19 in March and April this year with 45,819 patients hospitalised with seasonal influenza between December 2018 and the end of February 2019.
Some 16.9 per cent of Covid-19 patients died during the period of study – which was during a devastating first wave across Europe when doctors had few therapies to turn to for severely ill people.
This compares to a death rate of 5.8 per cent among those with influenza.
Catherine Quantin, a professor at the University Hospital of Dijon and the French national health institute INSERM who jointly led the study, said the difference in death rates was "particularly striking" given the 2018/19 flu season was the deadliest France had seen in five years.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/18/coronavirus-three-times-deadly-flu-finds-french-national-study/