Really? You think covid is not more deadly than the flu? Can you provide anything to back up that statement?
It depends what you mean by deadlier and for whom. For a young child there is little question that catching the flu is deadlier than catching SARS-CoV2 (a.k.a. the Wuhan virus). Of course, a young child most likely never had the flu most were not vaccinated against the flu. And for a young children back in 2020, the odds are they never had the Wuhan virus and certainly would not be vaccinated. We know vaccination and/or prior infection primes the immune system and greatly reduce the risk of serious illness and death. The best measure of how deadly a virus is is called the infection fatality rate (IFR). The best estimate of the IFR for the average seasonal flu is about 0.1%. What is the best estimate of the IFR for the Wuhan virus? Well here is the conclusion of world renowned epidemiologist professor John Ioannidis at Stanford University"
"Conclusions: All systematic evaluations of seroprevalence data converge that SARS-CoV-2 infection is widely spread globally. Acknowledging residual uncertainties, the available evidence suggests average global IFR of ~0.15% and ~1.5-2.0 billion infections by February 2021 with substantial differences in IFR and in infection spread across continents, countries and locations." Dr. John Ioannidis Here's a link to his study: file:///C:/Users/PritiKin1330/OneDrive/Desktop/eci.13554.pdf
After months of study, scientists have better clarity on the coronavirus's lethal potential—which makes recent case surges all the more alarming.
www.nationalgeographic.com
So let's look at the article by Carrie Underwood (not a world renowned epidemiologist or even an MD) in the National Geographic (not exactly a renowned peer scientific or clinical journal):
"Using a statistical model, epidemiologists at Columbia University estimated the infection-fatality rate for New York City based on its massive outbreak from March 1 to May 16. Their results,
published online as a non-peer reviewed preprint on June 29, show that the coronavirus may be even deadlier than first thought. According to their data, the COVID-19 infection-fatality rate is 1.46 percent, or
twice as high as earlier estimates (and much higher than a misinformed rate
being widely shared on social media). This risk varies by age, with those older than 75 [years old] having the highest infection-fatality rate, at 13.83 percent." Carrie Underwood
So is the IFR similar to the seasonal flu (0.1% vs 0.15%) or more than 10X deadlier than the average seasonal flu as estimated by Dr. Wan Yang and colleagues? Of course, the fact is the Wuhan virus, especially back in the March through early May of 2020 when Dr. Wan Yang et. al. gathered data in NYC had a higher IFR because MDs had no idea how to treat it and vaccine were still a long ways off. As you may recall there were a lot of outbreaks in nursing homes and a large fraction of those deaths were among older sicker people in nursing homes. The IFR (for the flu, Wuhan virus, and even colds) is far higher in older people (about 10,000X higher in 85y old compared to 10 year old Americans for the Wuhan virus) and back then Governor Cuomo did not do a very good job at protecting those most likely to die of COVID-19 in nursing homes.
So it appears to me you have been misled about the IFR of the Wuhan virus. And compared to 2020 the IFR for the Wuhan virus for Americans is now significantly lower than it was back in 2020. Why? MDs had few good ideas about how to best treat the Wuhan virus and back then there were no vaccines and no drugs approved by the FDA (even for emergency use) to treat SARS-CoV2 infections. Does that help you better understand what the likely true IFR is for the typical seasonal flu and the SARS-CoV2?
www.medrxiv.org
