From: robgood@bestweb.net   
      
   On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 4:52:49 PM UTC-4, bil...@shaw.ca wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 1:25:55 PM UTC-7, Bob wrote:   
   > >   
   > > How often have schools closed because of the flu?  I don't get the   
   justification for closing because of THIS respiratory illness and not THAT one.   
   >   
   > Covid19 has a fatality rate of between three and four per cent.   
   > Regular influenza has a fatality rate below 0.1 per cent. In   
   > other words, the coronavirus is 30 to 40 times more likely to kill   
   > you than an ordinary flu.   
   >   
   > Do you get it now?   
   >   
   > bill   
      
   Yes, I get that some people are using figures that make the "fatality rate"   
   come out unjustifiedly high.  The estimates I've heard of how many die out   
   of how many get colonized by the virus are now running around 0.3-0.4%, which   
   is comparable to some of the influenzas of the past.   
      
   Not only that, but if you consider just children, the fatality rate for even   
   the average flu is greater than that for Covid-19.  For old people, Covid-19's   
   about the same range of danger as viral pneumonia generally.  The agents of   
   viral pneumonia must always be circulating in the general population, yet we   
   don't try to control its spread there.   
      
   Bob in Andover   
      
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