COVID vs Flu: Which is worse?
6 min readDec 3, 2020
By Amy Rogers, MD, PhD
A reader asked me to help them understand whether COVID is different from flu, and why we should care about a disease that 99% of people recover from.
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When the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was recognized in the US back in March, a common argument against efforts to “flatten the curve” was this: We don’t close businesses and schools over…
