Using a 13% infection rate and 2,700,000 cases, the Infection fatality rate is .8%, 8 times higher than seasonal flu. And the .1% seasonal flu mortality rate cited is based on cases with symptoms, it does not consider infections which could be detected by blood test but produce no symptoms. 75% of regular flu is asymptomatic so the infection fatality rate for normal flu is actually .025% Therefore Covid19 is 32 times as deadly as seasonal flu. Any questions? https://www.nhs.uk/news/medical-practice/three-quarters-of-people-with-flu-have-no-symptoms/ https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-many-people-already-have-covid-19/
It is? I read that flu deaths were estimates, which I assume would include extrapolations that based upon those with symptoms, but included those without, as is the case with estimated Covid infections and deaths. Where do you see that such an estimate as 61,000 flu deaths were only those with symptoms?
In addition, using an average flu season avoids such cases as 100,000 or more flu deaths in America , and the issue that the response to such pandemics was not proportionate in comparison to that of Covid.
CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010. (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html)
Should have nuked the place from orbit.