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Corona Covid-19 Virus 3 Times More Deadly than Flu

Suara.com – Corona virus Covid-19 much worse than flu seasonal. A study also outlines this ugliness by showing that the death rate from the corona virus is 3 times higher than the seasonal flu.

The study used French national data in the journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, which underlines the increasing severity of disease in people with the Covid-19 corona virus.

Researchers compared data on 89,530 patients hospitalized with Covid-19 in March-April 2020, with 45,819 patients hospitalized because of influenza seasonal between December 2018 to the end of February 2019.

About 16.9 percent of coronavirus patients died during the study, which coincided with the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic across Europe.

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Reporting from Times of India, the mortality of 16.9 percent of coronavirus patients during the study was comparable to a mortality rate of 5.8 percent of influenza patients.

Illustration of corona virus, nose, nosebleed (Pixabay / mohamed_hassan)

Catherine Quantin, a professor at Dijon University Hospital and French national health institute INSERM, said the differences in death rates were stark, given that the 2018-2019 flu season was the deadliest in France in 5 years.

The researchers also noted that twice as many differences in the number of hospitalized patients were caused by the Covid-19 corona virus than by the flu. This may be due to better immunity to influenza, because a person may have been infected before or have been vaccinated.

The researchers found that more patients with the Covid-19 corona virus needed intensive care. The amount is around 16.3 percent which is much more than 10.8 percent in influenza cases.

Meanwhile, Covid-19 corona virus patients also stay longer in the ICU than flu patients, which is 15 days compared to 8 days.

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The study also reported that far fewer children under 18 were hospitalized with the coronavirus than the flu, which was 1.4 percent and 19.5 percent respectively.

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