"We know that COVID-19 spreads fast, and we know that it is deadly, 10 times deadlier than the 2009 flu pandemic," he said. WHO says 18,500 people died of "swine flu", or H1N1, which was first uncovered in Mexico and the United States in March 2009, but the Lancet medical estima...
Covid-19 much more widespread than thought, and NO MORE DEADLY THAN FLU, suggests new Stanford study RT-USA News A study out of Stanford University tested California residents and found that the Covid-19 infection rate is likely far higher than has been reported,but the virus could also be...
it's more deadly than the flu, about 30 to 40 percent higher. And so I really worry about those that are older, over 65, even over 70, those in nursing homes, those with a lot of comorbidities, because that is ...
far more Americans than people in most other countries have successfully been taught that annual flu shots are a must. From an international perspective, “Why do so many Americans get a flu shot
Despite his frequent claims that the disease would simply "go away" or "disappear," Trump reportedly told Woodward in a Feb. 7 phone call that he understood the virus was "more deadly than even your strenuous flu." Yet later that same month, Trump said publicly that "when you have...
Now that totalAmerican deaths from COVID-19 have matched those from the 1918-1919 Spanish Fluoutbreak, a common refrain is that COVID is either as bad or worse than what was for more than a century the worst pandemic in U.S. history. ...
COVID containment protects life, and development ensures livelihoods. According to scientists, despite its weaker pathogenicity, when the Omicron variant first struck China in early 2022, it was 40 percent more lethal than the flu. During that stage, China turned to swifter and more targeted COVI...
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said in a Feb. 7 call with Woodward. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.” ...
but even more so by the feelings these facts inspire. But worrying about new risks at the expense of known risks can actually be dangerous. Influenza is much more deadly, but because it is nothing new, many people don't even bother to have a flu jab. The same applies to climate change...
scientific experts, said Omicron’s rapid transmissibility meant “the threat of Covid could still not be equated to flu”. This was especially the case because the BA. 2 sub-variant, which is about 30 per cent more infectious than the original Omicron, was dominant in the UK, added Pagel...