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- Although the flu and coronavirus have some overlapping symptoms, the coronavirus' death rate in the US is far higher.
- On average in the US, the flu's death rate is .1%, while the coronavirus' death rate is 4.9%.
- Both viruses are most deadly for the elderly. The flu kills .83% of infected people above age 65, whereas the the coronavirus's death rate is 10.7% for infected people from age 65 to 74, 21.2% for the 75-84 group, and 30.2% for people over 85.
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Though some symptoms of the flu and the coronavirus overlap, comparing the death rates of the two shows just how much worse the coronavirus is.
While about 0.1% of people who got the flu died in the US last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the coronavirus' death rate is currently about 4.9%, based on the reported totals of cases and deaths. That makes the coronavirus' average death rate 49 times higher than that of the flu.
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