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<blockquote data-quote="Hans Blaster" data-source="post: 76378113" data-attributes="member: 396028"><p>Yes it is very useful.</p><p></p><p> * Covid is much more deadly than seasonal influenza. Seasonal influenza is also mostly dangerous to the very old and (less so) to the very young. Covid impacts the younger elderly and older middle age people pretty bad.</p><p></p><p> * Covid is much more infectious than influenza. Infected people are likely to transmit COVID to more people than those infected by influenza transmit the flu.</p><p></p><p> * Like Influenza, there have been winter outbreaks throughout the world when people spend more time indoors and their nasal passages are drier and more susceptible to infection if exposed to the virus. Unlike influenza, there have been AC waves of COVID in the hottest parts of the US each summer as people spend time indoors away from the heat and "back-to-school" waves each Fall.</p><p></p><p> * Influenza has many very different strains circulating at once. These strains are different enough to require different vaccines. (The "flu shot" is a mixture of these vaccines based on predictions of which strains will dominate each annual outbreak. They are sometimes surprised.) So far, the vaccine against the base version of COVID is fairly effective at preventing infections of all variants and quite effective at preventing the worst outcomes.</p><p></p><p> * The COVID vaccines are *much* more effective than the influenza vaccines, in part because of the various strains of influenza circulating each year.</p><p></p><p>So, yeah, let's compare it to the flu.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hans Blaster, post: 76378113, member: 396028"] Yes it is very useful. * Covid is much more deadly than seasonal influenza. Seasonal influenza is also mostly dangerous to the very old and (less so) to the very young. Covid impacts the younger elderly and older middle age people pretty bad. * Covid is much more infectious than influenza. Infected people are likely to transmit COVID to more people than those infected by influenza transmit the flu. * Like Influenza, there have been winter outbreaks throughout the world when people spend more time indoors and their nasal passages are drier and more susceptible to infection if exposed to the virus. Unlike influenza, there have been AC waves of COVID in the hottest parts of the US each summer as people spend time indoors away from the heat and "back-to-school" waves each Fall. * Influenza has many very different strains circulating at once. These strains are different enough to require different vaccines. (The "flu shot" is a mixture of these vaccines based on predictions of which strains will dominate each annual outbreak. They are sometimes surprised.) So far, the vaccine against the base version of COVID is fairly effective at preventing infections of all variants and quite effective at preventing the worst outcomes. * The COVID vaccines are *much* more effective than the influenza vaccines, in part because of the various strains of influenza circulating each year. So, yeah, let's compare it to the flu. [/QUOTE]
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