[ManHunter]

According to the WHO, the estimated mortality rate of COVID-19 is 3.4%, but others put it at 1.9-2.6%; actual mortality rate of influenza in the US this flu season: 6.9%.

[Vermont Lt]

Where are you getting the influenza number?

The reason I ask is that I was using the rates from 2018-2019: 35 million infected, 496k hospitalized, and 32,500 dead (I am working from memory, I am sure I rounded a little.). This makes the fatality rate about .91%.

Your figure is the deaths/hospitalization(?)

I am not “debating” your figures...just making sure everyone is speaking the same “language.”

[mlo]

” actual mortality rate of influenza in the US this flu season: 6.9%..”

No. Not even close.

[Crazieman]

You made a typo. You obviously meant 0.69%

[Jane Long]

According to the WHO, the estimated mortality rate of COVID-19 is 3.4%, but others put it at 1.9-2.6%; actual mortality rate of influenza in the US this flu season: 6.9%.

Not true!

Here's a graph that explains rates...

...The most crucial difference between the flu and the coronavirus is that the latter has been far deadlier. Whereas about 0.1% of people who get the flu die, the coronavirus' death rate is now at about 3.4%, based on the current numbers of cases and deaths....

...During the 2018-19 season, about one out of every 1,000 people who got the flu died....

...While the flu's death rate is low, it varies depending on the strains circulating each year. The flu virus also mutates rapidly, so people can get infected by different strains, which is why the shot isn't 100% effective and why new vaccines are developed every year.....

You can read more, from Business Insider, here.

[Black Agnes]

Um no.

The mortality of the flu this season is NOT 6.9%.

Maybe 0.069%.

Someone needs a better understanding of percents and decimal conversion thereof.

[DEPcom]

"According to the WHO, the estimated mortality rate of COVID-19 is 3.4%, but others put it at 1.9-2.6%; actual mortality rate of influenza in the US this flu season: 6.9%."

The 1.9 to 2.6% sounds like the Spanish Flu numbers. The regular flu is 0.1%.

"The unusually severe disease killed up to 2.5% of those infected, as opposed to the usual flu epidemic mortality rate of 0.1%"
Note: Unusually is the Spanish Flu in the quote from Wiki

[sleddogs]

Link?

I show:

That compares with a mortality rate of 0.095% for the flu in the U.S., according to CDC estimates for the 2019-2020 flu season.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/the-flu-has-already-killed-10000-across-us-as-world-frets-over-coronavirus.html

So far this flu season, about 0.05% of people who caught the flu have died from the virus in the U.S., according to CDC data.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-the-new-coronavirus-compare-with-the-flu/

[ModelBreaker]

“...actual mortality rate of influenza in the US this flu season: 6.9%.”

Pretty sure that is very high. If the flu killed 7% of people who got it this winter, it would have been a plague of biblical proportions.