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Please stop comparing COVID-19 to the flu.

The flu infects 50 million people in the US every year and kills 0.1% of them.

COVID-19 appears to have higher mortality by at least 20x.

It also appears to be more contagious.

But if it can't be contained before a vaccine is ready, and assuming it only infects the same number of people as the flu, a million could die.



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