The flu may be on the rise but Covid is still deadlier

Bleeding and clotting complications, which can lead to stroke, heart attack and eventually death, are more common in Covid-19 patients. — Filepic

Covid-19 isn’t "just a flu,” with a study of hospital patients finding that the virus was still 60% deadlier than influenza last winter.

Greater immunity against the coronavirus, better treatments and different virus variants lowered Covid-19’s mortality risk to about 6% among adults hospitalised in the United States last winter from 17-21% in 2020, researchers at the Clinical Epidemiology Center of the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System in Missouri found.