‘Weekly Omicron deaths would also need to fall significantly further from the total of 599 Covid-19 deaths recorded since early November to come below Ireland’s peak of 200 confirmed flu deaths in Irish hospitals in the winter season of 2017/18.’ Picture: GettyThat would depend on their comparative severity. Daily case numbers for cold and flu are unknown.
But HPSC data on influenza’s mortality rates show that Covid-19 is nowhere near the low levels of fatality for flu yet.
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