COVID Omicron carried 4 times the risk of death as flu-- new study in France data show

COVID Omicron carries 4 times the risk of death as flu, new data show Flu was tied to 7,851 deaths from week 33, 2022, to week 12, 2023, compared with 32,607 deaths tied to COVID-19. CIDRAP

The risk of death from SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infection was four times higher than that from influenza in late 2022 and early 2023 in France, a Harvard Medical School researcher reports today in Epidemiology & Infection.

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