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Originally Posted by Taf
The Influenza virus mutates, and certainly hasn't become any less lethal to those most at risk.
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The Flu is still as deadly as ever, but has had to take a back seat in the news in the last two years.
Recent ONS figures show that there were 148,606 deaths where Covid was identified as the underlying cause of death in England and Wales between the weeks ending 13 March 2020 and 1 April 2022, at the same time there were 35,007 deaths due to flu and pneumonia.
However, in that same time period there were 170,600 deaths where Covid was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate [as a cause or factor] but 219,207 deaths where flu and pneumonia were mentioned as a cause or factor.