Coronavirus Fact-Check #3: “Covid19 is 20x DEADLIER than the flu!”

11 April 2020 — Off Guardian

One of the buzz-stats doing the rounds says this novel virus is far more dangerous than influenza, does the science hold up?

Since the early days of the current pandemic, the go-to comparison has been influenza, both the specific historical outbreaks and the general seasonal “flus” (a catch-all term for respiratory viruses) which hit all over the world every winter.

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Statewatch News Online, 10 April 2020 (06/20)

10 April 2020 — Statewatch

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Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/apr/email-10-4-20.pdf

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