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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless my kid is exhibiting symptoms, my kid going to school. [b]At this point, it's no worse than the flu[/b], and we should treat it as such.[/quote]

It is no worse than influenza except for when it is worse than influenza.[/quote]
For the vast vast majority of people, it is not worse than the flu.

If you didn't quarantine for 5 days after being exposed to the flu but had no symptoms, then you don't need to with covid.

Every year, some people die from complications from the flu, yet we didn't force kids to quarantine for just being exposed.

I get that we needed to quarantine when covid first hit because we didn't know enough about the virus, and also we did not have a vax, but we do now, and it's no worse than the flu.[/quote]

Way more people die of covid than flu. Stop parroting unhelpful talking points [/quote]

We'll see what the winter surge brings, but I'm not sure this is the case anymore.  The weekly death total over the last 4 months is lower than an average flu year.  Now granted we are talking about summer, but the weekly covid death rate summer 2022 was 7-10x higher than it was this summer and covid has surged in the summer because of travel, gatherings etc [/quote]

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20230407/covid19-associated-with-higher-risk-of-death-compared-with-seasonal-influenza[/quote]

Article from April 2023 after last year's winter surge.  I said I don't think this is the case anymore and again most deaths among unvaccinated.  Like the article says the gap towards flu mortality will continue to close, as evidenced by this summer's numbers vs 2022.  "“The difference in mortality rates between COVID-19 and influenza appears to have decreased since early in the pandemic; death rates among people hospitalized for COVID-19 were 17% to 21% in 2020 vs. 6% in this study, while death rates for those hospitalized for influenza were 3.8% in 2020 vs. 3.7% in this study,” the authors wrote. “The decline in death rates among people hospitalized for COVID-19 may be due to changes in SARS-CoV-2 variants, increased immunity levels (from vaccination and prior infection) and improved clinical care.”"[/quote]

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