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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
And yet up to 28,000 die in a year in the UK from seasonal influenza and we hear very little about that. We have a way to go before we reach that figure.
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The average over the last 4 years has been 17,000.
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Public Health England estimates that on average 17,000 people have died from the flu in England annually between 2014/15 and 2018/19. However, the yearly deaths vary widely from a high of 28,330 in 2014/15 to a low of 1,692 in 2018/19.
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Everyone is used to the flu being around, and killing people, so the world carries on as normal.
Covid-19 is new, so people are more wary of it, and media sensationalization of it has now made people treat it like the plague (its nowhere near as deadly).
The other problem seems to be that it [generally] takes longer for symptoms to show, meaning you can potentially infect more people before knowing you have it yourself, and taking the nescessary precautions. All experts seem to agree that most people who eventually catch it will recover (and not even be certain they had it).