THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL ARTICLE.
The death rate of the flu this year so far is 0.038 percent. The death rate of COVID-19 virus is 3.5 percent. The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling COVID-19 a pandemic.
This is very serious.
In the article below there is a reporting of 120,000 people infected and 4300 deaths. That is a death rate of 3.5%, actually it is closer to 3.6%. That death rate is 94 percent more deadly than the annual flu.
The death rate of the flu this year so far is 0.038 percent. The death rate of COVID-19 virus is 3.5 percent. The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling COVID-19 a pandemic.
This is very serious.
In the article below there is a reporting of 120,000 people infected and 4300 deaths. That is a death rate of 3.5%, actually it is closer to 3.6%. That death rate is 94 percent more deadly than the annual flu.
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...“Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly,” (click here) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, chief of the W.H.O., said at a news conference in Geneva.
“We cannot say this loudly enough or clearly enough or often enough,” he added. “All countries can still change the course of this pandemic.”
But now there is evidence on six continents of sustained transmission of the virus, which has infected more than 120,000 people and killed more than 4,300, and by most scientific measures the spread qualifies as a pandemic. The designation itself is largely symbolic, but public health officials know that the public will hear in the word elements of danger and risk.
According to the W.H.O., an epidemic is defined as a regional outbreak of an illness that spreads unexpectedly. In 2010, it defined a pandemic as “the worldwide spread of a new disease” that affects large numbers of people.
The C.D.C. says it is “an epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents, usually affecting a large number of people.”
The W.H.O. had not declared a pandemic since 2009, when it gave that designation to a new strain of H1N1 influenza....
Even with higher numbers infected with the flu causing larger number of deaths, the COVID-19 virus is causing a higher percentage of deaths in people. If one wants to only contain COVID-19 to the USA against the statistics of flu below, the percentage of deaths per infected is much higher than the global statistic.
February 11, 2020
by Claire Gillespie
...Flu season (click here) is hitting its stride right now in the US. So far, the CDC has estimated (based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000.
The CDC also estimates that up to 31 million Americans have caught the flu this season, with 210,000 to 370,000 flu sufferers hospitalized because of the virus....
The seriousness of COVID-19 is a fact and not a matter of hysteria. This virus is very deadly and should not be taken lightly. People that normally would stay in work and recover from the flu are having a very difficult time surviving through this infection of COVID-19. They are hospitalized. There are not 31 million Americans hospitalized for the flu.
Saying COVID-19 is not that serious and less serious than the flu is highly inaccurate.
Even with higher numbers infected with the flu causing larger number of deaths, the COVID-19 virus is causing a higher percentage of deaths in people. If one wants to only contain COVID-19 to the USA against the statistics of flu below, the percentage of deaths per infected is much higher than the global statistic.
February 11, 2020
by Claire Gillespie
...Flu season (click here) is hitting its stride right now in the US. So far, the CDC has estimated (based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000.
The CDC also estimates that up to 31 million Americans have caught the flu this season, with 210,000 to 370,000 flu sufferers hospitalized because of the virus....
The seriousness of COVID-19 is a fact and not a matter of hysteria. This virus is very deadly and should not be taken lightly. People that normally would stay in work and recover from the flu are having a very difficult time surviving through this infection of COVID-19. They are hospitalized. There are not 31 million Americans hospitalized for the flu.
Saying COVID-19 is not that serious and less serious than the flu is highly inaccurate.
