Comparing numbers from covid-19 and those from flu are not very useful. Accountants know pretty well all the tricks to cook numbers. The official Chinese CDC figure for flu in China for 2018: 700,000 cases and 147 death - far from the "500,000 annual death" as reported in the "new findings from the Lancet..."
If you want to know if Covid-19 is "just like the flu", go ask the doctors and nurses in Wuhan. You cannot "cook" the life and death that you witness with your own eyes.
Chan Rasjid.
Singapore.
For demonstrating that this ISN'T EVEN AS BAD AS ordinary illnesses? It absolutely IS useful for that.
