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Originally Posted by 2140rc
Interesting in that there is no 100% vaccine for seasonal flu either. And although no one worries much about it the flu is every bit as deadly as the Wuhan Virus in numbers of deaths. Every year there is an educated guess made over which flu virus mutations will be predominant for the upcoming season. Some years the vaccine is pretty effective and other years it is nearly useless. The same thing is going to be true for COVID-19. Next season's virus likely will have mutated into a new one labeled COVID-20 (?) or something else. Either way there is not going to be any vaccine that is 100% effective. One way or another we will likely be living with this one for a long time.
The good news is that there are several new treatments that are showing good results against the virus and more and more people are recovering completely. This might be the real answer to the problem instead of a vaccine.
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Not true: From "Living Science":
The death rate from seasonal flu is typically around 0.1% in the U.S., according to The New York Times.
Though the death rate for COVID-19 is unclear, most research suggests it is higher than that of the seasonal flu.
In the study published Feb. 18 in the China CDC Weekly, researchers found a death rate from COVID-19 to be around 2.3% in mainland China. Another study of about 1,100 hospitalized patients in China, published Feb. 28 in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that the overall death rate was slightly lower, around 1.4%.
