Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

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n3il in reply to @Stonehedge

Swine Flu was less serious than normal flu but still killed half a
million people globally. I don't get why people think half a million
extra deaths is not a big deal. Half a million human deaths FFS!

is it extra deaths, or half a million that would have died from the 'normal' flu anyway?
is there a trend when this sort of new flu comes out, that less people die of the normal flu, because this other one gets them first?

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Stonehedge in reply to @n3il

My understanding is that it was extra deaths, in addition to an average flu season.

No idea about your second question but given that coronavirus but I do know coronavirus isn't a flu virus so perhaps not a link in this case. I'll leave that one to the virologists I think.

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n3il in reply to @Stonehedge

Oh OK

A lot of the comment i hear is 'if you weren't going to die from flu, you won't get this one and die' but I guess there aren't actually the facts to back up that assumption! (these people aren't medics btw, just pub chat)

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