Number of coronavirus cases and deaths in US pale in comparison to seasonal flu

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-map-tracking-spread-us-world/story?id=69415591

by stakkur • 6 years ago

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abcnews.go.com

stakkur4• 6 years ago

"The growing number of lab-confirmed cases in the U.S. at this point still pales in comparison to the seasonal flu, which kills an estimated 12,000 to 61,000 people per year and affects between 9 million and 45 million people in the country, according to the CDC."

420haxxor3• 6 years ago

Misleading title... bordering on disinformation.

"Still, experts warn that the COVID-19 shouldn't be downplayed or compared to a bad case of the flu. Instead, the respiratory disease is more akin to severe pneumonia, and in serious cases, patients experiencing difficulty breathing have been hospitalized and put on ventilators."

stakkur4• 6 years ago

What specifically is misleading or not factual about it? It's comparing number of cases and deaths, not the virus itself.

420haxxor3• 6 years ago

because it pales in comparison now, but it's still spreading. What value is there in a snapshot measurement of something that is actively increasing at an exponential rate??

The sentence chosen for the post title reads completely different if you read the following sentence in the article.

420haxxor3• 6 years ago

look at the other top level comment. the quote includes the very important qualifier "at this point" which was omitted in your post title.

smallduck• 6 years ago

Repeating the quote: "experts warn that the COVID-19 shouldn't be .. compared to a bad case of the flu". Contrasting the victim counts literally implies the comparison this article warns against.

Number of coronavirus cases and deaths in US pale in comparison to seasonal flu

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