Case fatality rate is very low.

https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid

Frank wrote on May 17^th, 2022 at 4:24pm:



Still -
65 deaths in one day is far too many.

https://7news.com.au/news/public-health/flurona-is-circulating-around-australia-...









Alex Chapman
7NEWS
Published: 17/05/2022
Updated: Tuesday, 17 May 2022 11:18 AM AEST


A leading doctor is urging Australians to be vigilant for so-called “flurona” infections - as she dispels some common misconceptions.

Flurona made headlines earlier this month when a Victorian woman died after being diagnosed with both COVID and the flu.

Watch more on this story in the video above

Experts say there’s a heightened possibility people could be infected simultaneously as we enter the winter months.

Dr Nirvana Luckraj, the Chief Medical Officer at national public health information service Healthdirect, told 7NEWS.com.au flurona was commonly misconceived as a new virus.


In reality, she said, it’s a “non-medical term” that means someone has flu and COVID at the same time.

“With COVID continuing to circulate in the community and cases still high in some states, combined with the predicted flu season we are expecting now that restrictions have eased, it’s quite possible that a person could have flu and COVID at the same time,” she said.

“It’s something we want to prevent as these are both potentially severe illnesses and combined would be particularly serious.”

Vaccination is the key to avoiding serious illness, she said.

But don’t expect your COVID jabs to have any impact on the flu.

“The flu vaccine is specifically designed for flu virus and COVID vaccines for COVID – they don’t protect against each other so it’s important to get both vaccines for best prevention this winter.

and simple measures we can take to keep ourselves, our families and communities healthy.”

buzzanddidj wrote on May 18^th, 2022 at 9:19am:


Another 36 deaths reported today already just from NSW and Victoria.

https://covidlive.com.au/

But, the pollies still insist there's nothing to worry about.

And, as I said the other day... we also had to open up the borders otherwise a certain airline CEO might not have been able to buy his 19 million dollar property. (the 4.5 million dollar property he's been living in wasn't good enough, apparently).

We've all been 'conditioned' over the years to accept up to 1,000 flu deaths a year for the sake of business and travel now we're slowly being 'conditioned' to accept up to 15,000 or more Covid deaths a year.

Disgraceful. People should be in prison for this disaster.

I had the flu over 20 years ago and I was crook for 6 weeks -
I nearly died.
Since then I have had the flu vax every year except the last 2 years.
There was no flu around for the last 2 years but it's back now
so I got my shot.
The H1N1 strain is a leftover of the 1918 Spanish flu -
it's still around and it's deadly.
The longest I ever got sick was just a few days in the last 20 years.

buzzanddidj wrote on May 18^th, 2022 at 9:19am:


15,000+ cases in CQ. 22 deaths. That is a death of 14 out of every 10,000 cases of covid19. And considering that the average age of people around here would be higher than what you would find in the city, I would say that we have done quite well in handling the pandemic. That is even though we in CQ were required to wear masks in public for about a month of the two years of the pandemic.

Bobby. wrote on May 18^th, 2022 at 7:46am:



absolute crap

eating a super healthy diet
exercising daily
sleeping 7 hours a night
have a partner who you vibe with
bouncing out of bed with a plan
not smoking or drinking

are all way way way way more important to your health then a vaccine which lasts 12 weeks against a relatively mild respiratory virus

FFS 

aquascoot wrote on May 18^th, 2022 at 2:49pm:


Yeah, lucky it is so relatively mild otherwise we could have had 20,000 Covid deaths so far this year instead of "only" about 5,500.

FFS