#COVID19 is NOT just the flu! Not only can you get COVID multiple times a year (compared to once a decade with flu) data from Winter 2022-23 shows the fatality rate is 61% 🔼 with COVID. More data:

- Over 65, COVID & flu death risk are the same. Under 65, COVID death rate is 78% 🔼.

- Death rate goes down with vaccinations: 132% 🔼 for unvaccinated, 66% 🔼 for 1/2 doses, and 38% 🔼 than flu for the boosted.

- COVID reinfection deaths are 34% 🔼 than flu reinfection deaths.

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@augieray Multiple infections are due to COVID-19 seasonality. It follows changes in solar radiation that can be approximated by changes in sunshine duration. Regions near the poles will face around 4 waves through the year while the remaining regions only two.

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