COVID-19 deaths can’t be compared to flu deaths, doctors warn
The mortality rate for flu is estimated, whereas the stats for coronavirus are exact, they argue
There’s no good way to compare estimates of yearly flu mortality to the actual numbers of COVID-19 deaths currently being recorded, doctors argue in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Attempts to compare these disparate kinds of numbers obscures the “true threat to public health from COVID-19,” they write.
