Covid Continues to Out-Kill Influenza: Prognosis
A health worker in the Covid-19 morgue at a hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2021. The pandemic virus continues to be a bigger killer than the flu, even amid hopes it will one day fade into the background with other respiratory diseases.
Photographer: Samsul Said/BloombergHi, it’s Jason in Melbourne. Try as we might to forget about Covid-19, it’s still not “just another flu.” Before I explain...
Covid deaths peaked at close to 26,000 a week in the US in January 2021. Thankfully, its grim toll has diminished significantly since then. But a year after the pandemic disease lost its emergency status, it continues to kill hundreds of people each week in the US and around the world.