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Covid-19 still isn't like the flu | CNN
When Delta Air Lines referred to Covid-19 as an "ordinary seasonal virus" after a federal judge struck down the Biden administration's mask mandate for public transportation, they were partly right: there is some evidence that it is seasonal. But it is far from ordinary, and it's still not the...
Covid-19 is still not normal.
Even as measures of severe Covid-19 drastically improve, they remain much worse than even the most severe flu.
The 2017-18 flu season was one of the worst in decades. An estimated 710,000 people were hospitalized and 52,000 died.
Daily Covid-19 deaths are nearing their lowest point in a year now -- but even with a relatively low rate of 400 deaths a day, the virus has still killed more people in two months than flu did over a full year at its worst. At the height of the Omicron surge just a few months ago, more people died of Covid-19 in just a few weeks than a full year of flu.
