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[โ€“] holland@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

COVID is basically a year round disease where flu is seasonal. So yeah it's gonna produce about an order of magnitude more death with just a few percent higher death rate.

[โ€“] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That's how I understood it, too. Turns out it's a difficult thing to comprehend, though.