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Both can cause symptoms such as fever and body aches. Both are more deadly to people over age 65.
And the viruses that cause these illnesses spread in similar ways, mainly from person to person through respiratory droplets.
But COVID-19 is not the seasonal flu.
In many ways, it’s much worse.
He notes that during mid-April the “counted deaths” for COVID-19 in the United States were around 15,000 per week. During a typical “peak week” for the flu, the “counted deaths” are about 750.
Faust concludes that COVID-19 deaths are actually anywhere from 10 times to 44 times the number of influenza fatalities.
Other experts say there are also reasons beyond the raw statistics that indicate COVID-19 is more dangerous than influenza
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