{"id":63815,"date":"2020-03-19T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63815"},"modified":"2020-03-19T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T02:20:09","slug":"coronavirus-versus-flu-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63815","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus versus the flu \u2014 which is worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fever, cough, sore throat, aches and pains \u2014 although the symptoms of the coronavirus are similar to those of the seasonal flu, the diagnosis is very different.<\/p>\n<p>As scientists race to discover a vaccine for the contagious illness \u2014 which has so far\u00a0infected more than 200,000 people\u00a0worldwide since it emerged in December \u2014 early data has confirmed it is deadlier, more contagious and harder to isolate than the traditional flu.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>These are the reasons why the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, is considered more worrisome by health officials.<\/p>\n<h2>Lethality<\/h2>\n<p>The mortality rate of the coronavirus is three times worse than the flu.<\/p>\n<p>While the seasonal flu has a death rate of less than 1 percent, public health officials believe COVID-19 has a death rate of around 3 percent \u2014 and while that percentage may still seem low, it makes a stark difference in the number of lives lost when battling a rapidly spreading pathogen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s three times more lethal than seasonal influenza \u2014 seasonal influenza kills half a million people every year. So that means there would be 1.5 million deaths [from COVID-19] if we don\u2019t have a vaccine in a year,\u201d said Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, a professor of medicine and microbiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>However, limited testing capacity around the world currently \u2014 because the virus is so new \u2014 means that many cases are going undocumented, which could affect the mortality rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of milder cases that we don\u2019t know about and, obviously, when we document them, we will increase the number of cases and decrease the rate of mortality \u2014 but we don\u2019t know by how much,\u201d Garcia-Sastre said.<\/p>\n\n<h2><strong>Containment<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Both COVID-19 and the flu are transmitted similarly \u2014 typically via droplets in the air from a person coughing, sneezing or talking. But the minimum two-week incubation period for the coronavirus is much longer than that of the flu, which makes containing the spread of the virus a lot more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>People infected with the coronavirus can transmit it to others even if they experience just a mild cough and feel otherwise healthy, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that then it\u2019s very difficult to contain because we cannot distinguish infected individuals by symptoms,\u201d Garcia-Sastre said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Vulnerability<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The newness of the coronavirus makes it much more contagious than seasonal influenza.<\/p>\n<p>While people have developed a certain level of immunity to the flu from exposure, COVID-19 was not known to science until the outbreak emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity,\u201d WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a briefing earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And because the symptoms of COVID-19 and the flu are so similar, the two illnesses remain incredibly difficult to distinguish without testing.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, hospitals have been inundated with flu-stricken patients who fear they have COVID-19 \u2014 adding to the pressure the pandemic is already putting on global healthcare systems.<\/p>\n\n<p>It is hard to determine what the longer-term implications of the coronavirus could be, but Garcia-Sastre believes the disease could pose a serious health crisis for at most a year before vaccines and better testing are developed, and natural immunity is built.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy that time the virus propagation will be very low and will not cause as many problems as it does now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, it is important to follow expert advice\u00a0on how to protect yourself\u00a0and\u00a0when to go see a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fever, cough, sore throat, aches and pains \u2014 although the symptoms of the coronavirus are similar to those of the seasonal flu, the diagnosis is very different. 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