Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Georgia's governor bans cities from requiring masks" video.
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@winterszhuzhupets2 That's the exact opposite of reality. Swine flu had a vastly lower death rate than COVID-19.
The CDC estimates that America had 60.8 million infections from H1N1 swine flu in 2009, and 12,469 deaths. That's a 0.02% mortality rate, which is not only vastly lower than COVID, it's lower than the regular seasonal flu (which has a mortality rate of around 0.1%). Those are the estimated numbers, which could quite possibly have been a significant overestimate. The confirmed numbers for swine flu are 115,318 Americans infected and 3,433 killed. That gives a similarly low mortality rate of 0.03%.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html
The CDC has for some reason not issued any similar estimates for how many cases and deaths we've had from COVID. (By which I mean, the Trump administration most likely prohibited them from doing so, in order to keep the "numbers" lower.) Unlike with swine flu, we only have the numbers of directly verified cases and deaths (meaning the number of people who actually tested positive, and the number who died after testing positive). As of last night the US has had 3,695,025 cases and 141,118 deaths from COVID. That's a 3.82% mortality rate, which is very comparable to the Spanish flu of 1918.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
tl;dr version: COVID-19 is more than 100 times more lethal than the swine flu of 2009 was.
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