Ray From Cleveland
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It's true. The problem is the contagion rate is twice as high as the "regular" flu and it is much more deadly. There is no vaccine. It is going to kill a lot more old and sick people than the regular flu does. So I suppose if we have no issue with our parents dying or the lady down the lane with severe asthma, we're all good.it was just reported, that the flu has a mortality rate of less than 1/10 of 1 % / 0,1%, the mortality rate is suppose to be on average for the Corona virus world wide around 2% now, that is 20 times greater death rate if you contact the C=virus, and you are more likely get the virus because none of the population is vaccinated, as they are with the Flu...
Even with a vaccination, that doesn't guarantee you're not going to get it. This year, we had over 14,000 deaths because of the flu in the US, and 250,000 hospitalized. The season isn't close to over with yet.
Yeah, but I think most people don't get flu vaccines. Can't say whether that will be the case with coronavirus.
Last report I heard said that young children are surprisingly not as vulnerable to coronavirus as they are to most respiratory epidemics.
From what I've read, the danger is mostly to the elderly and those that already have chronic diseases. But that's also true for the flu as well.
Kill more people than the flu? I doubt it unless it gets wide spread. We've only had a handful of deaths with the coronavirus and over 14,000 Americans die from the flu. The coronavirus has a ways to go to catch up to those numbers.