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Having gotten into a debate on the weekend with an antimasker I became more aware of an argument doing the rounds about how covid19 is no more deadly than flu.
Reading up on this I found this article from national geographic which suggests covid19 is 50-100 times more deadly.
How scientists know COVID-19 is way deadlier than the flu
But the death rate seems to have declined considerably since this article was written, possibly due to a new awareness of asymptomatic infections due to extensive testing. My latest readings are that the Infection-Fatality rate for Flu is <0.1% and that of covid19 somewhere between 0.65% and 1.46%. This would make covid19 between 6 and 15 times more deadly. Add in a longer incubation time and higher natural Reproduction rate and the disease is clearly far more of a threat.
Does any body have any more recent research on this? How would you argue with someone who thought that the science did not support the view that covid19 was more deadly?
Reading up on this I found this article from national geographic which suggests covid19 is 50-100 times more deadly.
How scientists know COVID-19 is way deadlier than the flu
But the death rate seems to have declined considerably since this article was written, possibly due to a new awareness of asymptomatic infections due to extensive testing. My latest readings are that the Infection-Fatality rate for Flu is <0.1% and that of covid19 somewhere between 0.65% and 1.46%. This would make covid19 between 6 and 15 times more deadly. Add in a longer incubation time and higher natural Reproduction rate and the disease is clearly far more of a threat.
Does any body have any more recent research on this? How would you argue with someone who thought that the science did not support the view that covid19 was more deadly?
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