0.1% is the mortality for the flu -- of the ENTIRE POPULATION. That is, 0.1% of the entire populations gets the flu and dies FROM the flu.
0.001% if the entire population dies "from" the common cold -- but these are always people who have co-morbidities and would've died anyway. No one dies FROM the cold. They die with the cold, or due to conditions initiated by the cold.
COVID-19, if we are to believe the numbers, has killed about 0.03% of our population. A lot of data suggests that this is actually people who died WITH coronavirus, not people who died FROM coronavirus. I believe in Italy someone dug deep into their data and found only 2% of the deaths were FROM coronavirus, while the rest were WITH coronavirus, so the actual death rate is about 0.006%.
0.1% is the mortality for the flu -- of the ENTIRE POPULATION. That is, 0.1% of the entire populations gets the flu and dies FROM the flu.
0.001% if the entire population dies "from" the common cold -- but these are always people who have co-morbidities and would've died anyway. No one dies FROM the cold. They die with the cold, or due to conditions initiated by the cold.
COVID-19, if we are to believe the numbers, has killed about 0.03% of our population. A lot of data suggests that this is actually people who died WITH coronavirus, not people who died FROM coronavirus. I believe in Italy someone dug deep into their data and found only 2% of the deaths were FROM coronavirus, while the rest were WITH coronavirus, so the actual death rate is about 0.006%.
COVID-19 IS THE COMMON COLD.
I've been saying this since day one...
Then add in average age of death, 78
Funny you say that, considering the common cold is in the coronavirus family.