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Rachel Lutz – Why Comparing Flu and COVID-19 Severity Is Not Equivalent

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Why so many people think COVID-19 is no worse than flu, and why doctors are worried.Comparing seasonal influenza (flu) mortality to the mortality rate of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is a threat to public health and demonstrates the lack of understanding about how the data is collected for each infection by varying agencies, according to a Viewpoint  Authors from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Emory University School of Medicine outlined why the apparent equivalence of deaths from COVID-19 and seasonal influenza are not capturing the entirety of the situation. They said that public officials continually draw comparisons between the 2 infections, “often in an attempt to minimize the effects of the unfolding pandemic.” Contagion Live Rachel Lutz - Why Comparing Flu and COVID-19

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Rachel Lutz - Why Comparing Flu and COVID-19 Severity Is Not Equivalent

Why so many people think COVID-19 is no worse than flu, and why doctors are worried.

Comparing seasonal influenza (flu) mortality to the mortality rate of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is a threat to public health and demonstrates the lack of understanding about how the data is collected for each infection by varying agencies, according to a Viewpoint 

Authors from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Emory University School of Medicine outlined why the apparent equivalence of deaths from COVID-19 and seasonal influenza are not capturing the entirety of the situation.

They said that public officials continually draw comparisons between the 2 infections, “often in an attempt to minimize the effects of the unfolding pandemic.”


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Rachel Lutz - Why Comparing Flu and COVID-19 Severity Is Not Equivalent

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