Pretty much the same questions apply to getting a COVID booster. And once again, most people don’t “know” the answers. But unlike with flu shots, for COVID boosters many people have a sense that the experts don’t entirely know the answers either. Plus, the experts seem to disagree ...
Total reactionsfor thevaccineAZD1222/VAXZEVRIA(CHADOX1 NCOV-19)fromOxford/AstraZeneca:8,490 deathsand1,204,744 injuriesto 15/03/2022 14,381 Blood and lymphatic system disordersincl. 294 deaths 21,952 Cardiac disordersincl. 890 deaths 250 Congenital familial ...
On the 3rd of December 2021, 263,655,612 confirmed cases and deaths were recorded, reflecting increased COVID-19 infections compared to the previous year. The American and European regions documented the highest COVID-19 patients with 97,341,769 and 88,248,591 cases, respectively (see Fig. ...
When pneumonia deaths are included with flu, the number would be 29516 in 2018 and 26398 in 2019. This is obviously closer to covid death numbers, though still less, according to current trends. Covid mortality data have also been the subject of debate. Through the pandemic some datasets, ...
the vaccine was 39% effective in preventing infection, according to the CDC. Due to an effective vaccine and COVID-19 mitigation measures, the number ofreported flu casesduring the 2020-2021 season was so low it almost seems like a typo: only 2,038 cases of flu, compared to ...
4. Little consensus exists over whether key pandemic metrics like cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are increasing or decreasing.Just over one-third (35%) of Americans believe COVID-19 cases in their state are increasing, compared to 26% who believe they are decreasing, 21% who believe they...
And US deaths are still averaging 1,000 per day, many times higher than average daily flu deaths.119 It is increasingly clear that more infectious variants of concern120 may drive a new wave of cases in the coming months. The United Kingdom is in a relatively favorable position; cases ar...
The true death rate is yet to emerge, as the real number of people infected is still unknown. But it is thought to be much higher than that of seasonal flu, which a number of commentators misguidedly compared to coronavirus at the beginning of the pandemic. ...
The last global epidemic of Spanish flu responsible for 20–50 millions deaths has coincided with First World War, internecine conflicts and birth of bolshevism, which all together brought the greatest confusion to mankind. Movements of great masses of soldiers from the US brought the H1N1 ...
“Omicron may be less severe – on average, of course – but the narrative that it is mild disease is misleading, hurts the overall response, and costs more lives,” Tedros said. “Make no mistake, Omicron is causing hospitalizations and deaths and even the less severe cases are inundating...