Coronavirus
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How does covid compares to flu for in-hospital stay patents? Let's find out!
In-hospital death rate is 17% for covid v 6% for flu.
16% of covid patients required admission to ICU v 11% for flu.
27% of covid patients requiring admission to ICU will die v 18% for flu.
10% of covid required invasive ventilators v 4% for flu.
Median and mean stay in ICU was twice as long for covid as for flu.Though over all covid is more serious than flu, flu is way more serious in pediatric patients (<18 years) as 20% of the hospitalized cases are withing this age group (v 1% for covid). Though flu is 20x likely to bring a child/adolescent to hospital, covid is more deadly (4x higher than for flu).
Typical death rate from flu is 0.1% but for in-hospital stays it's a staggering 6%. As covid in-hospital death rate is 3x that of flu, we can speculate that over-all death rate of covid is 0.3%. [my comment]
This death rate is nowhere near the stats we were hearing at the beginning if the pandemic, so it's up to individuals to determine for themselves if 3x death rates of something as trivial as flu should justify the hoopla we are witnessing around the pandemic. [my comment]
- the are numbers "low" BECAUSE OF the restrictions. you'd see vastly higher numbers if the restrictions were removed altogether. so the "hoopla" is justified.dorf
- most science papers have "Discussion" portion where possible explanation are confronted. So like you might want to read it before jumping to your conclusions.pr2
- those are mortality RATES, so it would be the same if you only had 1000 cases or 1 million.pr2