Numerous claims have to compare the COVID-19 pandemic with past pandemics, such as Spanish influenza in 1918 or swine flu in 2009. Others have tried to scan the new symptoms of coronavirus and infection rate as something similar to seasonal influenza.
USA TODAY refuted the claim that there were one million fewer cases of COVID-19 than of H1N1 virus, or swine flu, in the first year of this pandemic.
Two other claims suggesting that a momentary wave of the Spanish influenza pandemic had a higher mortality rate than the first also proved inaccurate.
A widely shared meme presents a modified edition of the statement. A Facebook post at the end of July was shared more than 50,000 times. USA TODAY contacted the sign for comments and responded with more statistics that may not be verified indefinitely.
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In it, fitness experts are accused of overreacting to COVID-19 in relation to the H1N1 pandemic of 1918 (Spanish flu) and seasonal influenza. The same begins with the line “How big is 1%?” It then provides statistics on pandemic and seasonal influenza, adding the world’s population, the number of other people inflamed, and the mortality rate relative to the world population.
The meme says that 50 million people, 5.26% of a global population estimated at 950 million, died from the Spanish flu, and then said, “Experts: TRAGIC EVENT!”
While around 50 million people died from Spanish influenza, according to an estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Global Change Data Laboratory estimates that the estimated global population in 1918 was 1.8 billion. A 2006 article in the CDC’s emerging fitness journal Infectious Diseases cites an overall mortality rate of 2.5%. The pandemic lasted two years, from the spring of 1918 to the spring of 1920.
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In 2018, 650,000 people out of the 7.5 billion, or 0.009%, died from seasonal influenza worldwide. Experts have rated it a “typical year,” according to the meme.
This meme component is accurate. Each year, 3 to 5 million people internationally contract seasonal influenza, causing between 290,000 and 6,500,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. WHO estimates that the international annual mortality rate is less than 0.1%, Said Full Fact, an independent UK auditor.
The meme says that at least 488729 of approximately 7.7 billion other people died from COVID-19. There is no meme-related date, however, the international death toll reached more than a million on June 28, USA TODAY reported.
“1% of the world’s population at the moment would be one million dead. Now, if 5.26% is TRAGIC and Array009 IS NOT A GREAT MATTER, what do we do!” The meme ends.
According to the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University, the number of COVID-19 deaths exceeded 776,000 in mid-August.
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A report published on the 13th of August in the medical journal JAMA Network Open the two months after COVID-19’s first death in New York with the deadliest two months of the Spanish influenza pandemic.
Researchers found that although there were more deaths in line with another 100,000 people at the peak of The Spanish flu, the death toll was still comparable to that of the COVID-19 epidemic.
The difference is in the fundamental mortality rates. People died for reasons unrelated to H1N1 in 1918, due to poorer physical condition, physical condition and safety. As a result, the researchers found that the accumulation related to the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic was “significantly higher” than the peak of the Spanish influenza pandemic.
“This time, with more complex medical care and public fitness systems that reduced the number of deaths to 50, according to a month consistent with 100,000 on the same dates from March to May in the last 3 years, the number of deaths quadrupled,” USA TODAY reported. August 13.
Experts decided that COVID-19 was more fatal than seasonal influenza. There is a seasonal flu vaccine, which reduces cases; there is no vaccine for COVID-19.
The mortality rate consistent with one hundred cases in the United States was 3.1% on Thursday, and the mortality rate of about 0.05% is one of the highest in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. Only Peru, Spain, Chile and Brazil are higher.
The CDC reported that annual seasonal influenza mortality is approximately 0.01%, or 12,000 to 61,000 deaths consistent with the year.
According to the most recent knowledge of the CDC, COVID-19 has an overall infection mortality rate of 0.0065. This relationship is explained as the proportion of deaths among all inflamed individuals. The percentage of transmission through asymptomatic carriers is 50%. The overall fatality rate, the proportion of deaths shown and shown, reached 3.5% on Thursday, according to the Global Change Data Lab.
For further comparison, 151,700 to 575,400 other international people died from H1N1 infection during the 2009 pandemic, according to the CDC. The Americans represented another 12,469 people. More than 174,000 have died from COVID-19 in the United States, according to the Coronavirus Resource Center. The swine flu vaccine is available about five months after the first case shown in the United States, USA TODAY reported.
However, the Global Change Data Lab stated that an in-depth investigation of COVID-19 mortality deserves to come with the likelihood of death of an inflamed user or the infection mortality rate. The total number of instances and deaths is required to, as you deserve, to calculate this rate. Several factors, in addition to subtests, make it difficult for researchers to calculate the total number of instances.
USA TODAY found that the comparison presented in the meme with numbers alone is fair. The new coronavirus spreads faster and is more contagious than seasonal influenza.
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We compare this as PARCIALLY FALSE, based on our research. The initial provided more commonly accurate statistics on the 1918 influenza epidemic and seasonal influenza mortality rates. But COVID-19 was more fatal than any of these diseases, according to experts and studies. Although the number of other people who died from COVID-19 as a percentage of the world’s population at any given time may be a precise figure, it does not reflect the mortality rate of the virus. The mortality rate is approximately 0.05% in the United States alone. It is among the highest in the world and higher than the annual mortality rate for seasonal influenza, according to the most recent data.
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