[fr_freak]

But [COVID] is bad, worse than seasonal influenza, and it’s not even close.

In the two years since all this nonsense started, I have seen NOTHING to indicate that this is true.

[Jim Noble]

In the two years since all this nonsense started, I have seen NOTHING to indicate that this is true

I've been practicing Infectious Diseases medicine for 41 years. That's 42 "flu seasons".

In peak flu season, the average number of patients in my practice with hypoxemic respiratory failure requiring a ventilator on any given day is 0-1. For the three weeks before, during, and after 1/15/22, those numbers were 12, 19, and 14.

Believe what you want, 19 ventilated and contagious patients are enough to leave a memory on staff for years.