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Coronavirus nearly three times more deadly than flu: study Sun Online Desk 19th December, 2020 01:09:01 Roughly a year into the pandemic it is clear the new coronavirus is worse than seasonal flu. A study released on Friday outlined just how much worse, showing a death rate almost three times higher among Covid-19 patients. The research, using French national data and published in the journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, underscored the increased severity of illness for people with Covid-19. Researchers compared data for 89,530 patients hospitalised with Covid-19 in March and April this y...

Paris, Dec. 18, 2020 (dpa/Naija247news) The mortality rate among patients suffering from COVID-19 in hospitals in France is three times higher than among those with flu, according to a French study. In spring, 16.9 per cent of patients died of those who were hospitalised with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, while 5.8 per cent of patients hospitalised with flu died in the winter of 2018-19. However, patients may be receiving better treatment for the virus compared to at the outset of the pandemic. “Our study shows that COVID-19 is far more serious than flu,” Catherine Quan...

2-MIN READ Coronavirus Three Times Deadlier Than Flu, Oximeters Less Reliable on Black Patients In this December 7, 2020, file photo, a critical care nurse with North Memorial Health Hospital leans down to speak to a Covid-19 patient under their care in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP) The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID19, the illness caused by the virus. FOLLOW US ON: COVID-19 far more deadly than seasonal flu COVID-19 is three times more deadly than sea...

This compares to a death rate of 5.8% among those with influenza. Medical staffers work in the ICU of the Bassini Hospital, in Cinisello Balsamo, near Milan, Italy, April 14, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP) Catherine Quantin, a professor at the University Hospital of Dijon and the French national health institute INSERM who jointly led the study, said the difference in death rates was “particularly striking” given the 2018-2019 flu season was the deadliest France had seen in five years. The authors note that the difference in the number of hospitalizations — which saw twice as ma...

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: COVID-19 causes more severe disease than seasonal influenza, comparison of data from over 130,000 hospitalised patients confirms Peer-reviewed / Observational / People Study based on French national data from 89,530 patients hospitalised with COVID-19 between 1 March and 30 April 2020 and 45,819 patients hospitalised with seasonal influenza between 1 December 2018 - 28 February 2019. Death rate among hospitalised COVID-19 patients was three times higher than seasonal influenza (15,104/89,530 [16.9%] vs influenza 2640/45,819 [5.8%]). More patients with COVI...