Covid-19 kills three times more people than flu, French study shows
By Amanda Morrow with RFI LISTEN
REUTERS - BENOIT TESSIER
A French study published Friday has found that Covid-19 is three times more deadly than the seasonal flu.
Run by the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research and Dijon University Hospital, the study, published in
The Lancet, was carried out on nearly 130,000 patients in public and private hospitals in France.
Researchers compared Covid admissions during the spring of 2020, at the height of the French epidemic, with influenza admissions between December 2018 and February 2019 – a particularly deadly flu season.