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Letters to the editor and short takes Thursday July 9 2020

July 9 2020 - 6:00am
Comparing COVID-19 and the flu won't help Victoria stamp it out
Comparing COVID-19 and the flu won't help Victoria stamp it out

SCOTT Hillard (Short Takes, 6/7) again declares that COVID-19 is not as serious as influenza, basing his assertion on the simple statistic that there have only been 104 deaths in Australia from COVID-19 (now 106 at the time of writing this) compared to the usual 500 per year from influenza. He boldly trumpets that "clearly, the burden from influenza is the greater of the two". Clearly, Mr Hillard hasn't thought this through.

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