Flu has been the scourge of humanity for thousands of years, but COVID-19 appears to have cured it.
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Number of Influenza-Associated Pediatric Deaths
The 1899 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica said that flu normally has a 2% mortality rate, but can be much higher. The official statistics for COVID-19 are that it has killed 0.03% of the world’s population.
“The mortality Is generally reckoned at about 2 per cent, but when an extensive epidemic prevails even this proportion is sufficient to swell the death-rate largely”
