>>45727198We will also get a very weak flu season this time, because most of the ones that the flu would have taken now covid has taken already.
The thing also is that while it was still new nobody really knew the exact properties, noone could really say how dangerous it is, how contagious it is etc. Those statistical values only become reliable with higher numbers.
Only now we really know that
>>45725800is indeed right regarding the OVERALL rate of the flu. For <35y the death rate is around 0.05%, which is exactly the rate for the flu over ALL age groups. So covid is still more dangerous than the flu because that one in that particular range will have a lot lower death rate, just not that much more.
