When it comes to COVID-19, there are still many who think it is a “little grip”. Opinions aside, world-wide figures speak for themselves and there are sites that show what dies after all in these times of the new coronavirus.
According to WHO, the lethality rate of seasonal influenza is 0.1%, while that of COVID-19 is 0.6%, that is, six times more deadly.
There is no doubt that the fatality rate of COVID-19 is high. According to the figures, more than 29 million people have been infected worldwide and more than 925,000 people have died. Altogether, they have recovered almost 21 million people infected. In view of the doubts between COVID-19 and the common flu, WHO revealed that the lethality rate of seasonal influenza is 0.1%, while that of COVID-19 is 0.6%.
Icrea Quique Bassat, from the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), revealed to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that “the COVID-19 has placed itself on the podium of diseases with the highest mortality and this has made the world realize the brutal impact that infections have ”. Antoni Trilla, an epidemiologist at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, said that COVID-19 would be comparable in extent and severity to the Spanish flu of 1918, which caused 50 million deaths in a year, at a time when the world population was 2.5 billion. COVID-19 has already claimed more than 925,000 victims in 8,000 million inhabitants. With the arrival of winter, the mortality rate is expected to increase.
EUROMOMO: What is the impact of COVID-19 on mortality?
EuroMOMO is a mortality monitoring platform in Europe, with the aim of detecting and measuring excess deaths related to seasonal flu, pandemics and other threats to public health.
Official national mortality statistics are provided weekly in 24 European countries through the EuroMOMO collaborative network, supported by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The numbers leave no room for doubt or comparison. COVID-19 has led to a peak in death toll across Europe.
COVID-19 is the name given by the World Health Organization to identify the disease caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This new coronavirus was first identified in December 2019 in China, in the city of Wuhan. The initial cases of COVID-19 were associated with a market in Wuhan (Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market). The market closed on January 1, 2020, but the disease has progressed, triggering a worldwide epidemic or pandemic.
SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the new virus and means Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Coronavirus - 2.
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