Whoever comparing COVID-19 to flu is simply ignorant.
a point made by dr fauci, head of nih, during his testimony in front of congress:
https://www.businessinsider.com/top-highlights-of-dr-anthony-fauci-congressional-testimony-2020-3à
quote from the article:
Dr. Fauci: "Well, SARS was also a coronavirus in 2002. It infected 8,000 people, and it killed about 775. It had a mortality of about 9 to 10%. That's only 8,000 people in about a year. In the two and a half months that we've had this coronavirus, as you know we now have multiple multiples of that. So it clearly is not as lethal. And I'll get to the lethality in a moment, but it certainly spreads better. Probably for the practical understanding of the American people, the seasonal flu we deal with every year has a mortality of 0.1%. The stated mortality overall of this when you look at all the data, including China, is about 3%, it first started off as 2 and now 3. I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic, that probably brings the mortality down to around 1%. Which means this is ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu. I think that's something that people can get their arms around and understand."
also good interviews with him on nbc and fox :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvhvZS1rUCQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvW17dSuX5Q




