Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Without having done in-depth reading (I don't have time to research right now) I was going from what I read this morning.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-...tions/12042318



As I understand it, the normal flu (also a coronavirus) can have similarly severe effects, we just have more immunity and vaccines.

Perhaps the rate of severe cases is different. As I said, do your research but from reliable sources.
First of all, ABC news is not reliable or trustworthy source of information, first better article i found and they already spreading fake news regarding that Italian lady, which died from seizure not from coronavirus https://bestpractice.bmj.com/topics/en-us/3000168
Sars-cov-2 is not your regular influenza virus, humans never had a contact with this kind of disease before our immune system does not have any antibodies to fight with it, hence why most of people develops more than 2 symptom and big part of them gets pneumonia which is dangerous on its own.
Your regular Flu is caused by coronaviruses but only in 10% of total cases and those coronaviruses are different kind, coronaviruses is just a name for family of viruses which has protein spikes on their surface. Your normal influenza type of flu does not affect as big % of patients with complications such as sarscov2, in fact according to this study
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032
16% from all cases had a serious illness including pneumonia, arythmia, kidney failure, respiratory failure, septic shock etc.
Do you want to know how big % of people having flu need a professional medical care? 1.3%
This virus we are talking about is far more deadly and we already have 3 mutations from which 1 is even deadlier than one china experienced and is right now in italy.
I follow this disease since january, the scale of disaster that is going to happen is waaay above our public health care capacity.