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The next morning, after being released from Walter Reed National Medical Center Military in Maryland Suburb, President Donald Trump published a little confusing PSA for the country about the next season of colds and flu. Instead of pushing Americans get the influenza vaccine, he used his tweet to encourage people not to be afraid of Covid-19 because he is "much less mortal" than influenza. (At least, it is how it is interpreted, his grammar does not know) However, according to an infectious disease expert high, the Trump declaration is factually incorrect. Continue reading, and to cross this pandemic to your healthier, do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.

The declaration is "absolutely incorrect"

"The flu season is coming! Many people every year, sometimes more than 100,000, and despite the vaccine, die from the flu, "Trump has tweeted Tuesday morning. "Are we going to close our country? No, we learned to live with her, just as we learn to live with Covid, in most people much less deadly !!! »

Darren Mareiniss, MD, FaceceThe physician emergency medicine in Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and an expert in response to pandemic, explains that this statement is "irresponsible and quite wrong. »

"The CVIV-19 mortality rate is about 2% all patients and much higher for the elderly and people with comorbidities," he explains. "It is in the same mortality rate as the 1918 pandemic that killed 100 million worldwide and 650,000 to 1 million in the United States. »

Influenza, on the other hand, is much less deadly. "The seasonal influenza has only a mortality rate of 0.1%," much lower, "he explains. "So, Covid-19 is at least 20 times more deadly."

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More than 210,000 Americans lost lives Covid-related deaths

In fact, according to the preliminary data of only more than 7 months disease control centers and prevention, since the first death Covid-19 has been confirmed on February 29, more people died of coronavirus than deaths related to the Influenza for the last five years combined. The number of influenza deaths combined by the last five seasons 2019-2020 influenza: 22 000 (provisional data), 2018-2019: 34000 (preliminary), 2017-2018: 61000 (preliminary), 2016-2017: 38000, 2015- 2016: 23,000 could be as low as 178000, while more than 210,000 people died in Covid in less than a year.

This season of colds and influenza, it is more important than ever to take precautionary measures. Fortunately, most of the same things that will help keep these diseases at the bay also prevents the spread of COVID-19.Here we are all the advice of Dr. Anthony Fauci on avoiding colds, the flu and coronavirus this winter.