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by nodamage 2247 days ago
Bear in mind that the CDC estimate of 45 million influenza cases[1] is the number of symptomatic cases, and therefore it doesn't really make sense to directly compare that with Covid-19 IFR rates calculated from antibody studies which include both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm