Covid-19 remained a bigger killer than the flu last winter, despite hopes the pandemic virus would eventually blend into the background with other respiratory germs that cause seasonal epidemics, a US study showed.
Patients hospitalized for Covid had a 35% higher risk of dying within 30 days than influenza patients, Ziyad Al-Aly and colleagues at the clinical epidemiology center of the Veterans Affairs St Louis Health Care System in Missouri found. Covid posed a 60% higher mortality risk than flu in hospitalized patients during the 2022-2023 season, the same researchers showed last year.

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    6 months ago

    saw a better way, wearing masks to prevent spreading illnesses and the westoids only made up bullshit about how it was moderately uncomfortable.

    They claimed that its “not in our values” to wear a mask, which is pretty amazing that they don’t realize what they’re saying. They try to sidestep what they’re implying by claiming mask don’t work, but the reality is, Thinking about or caring about others isn’t in our values. And they’re right. Rugged individualism is antisocial. And capitalism is the sociopaths economic system fr. Liberal society conditions antisocial behaviors and creates antisocial people, calling them Individualistic just hides the reality.

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      6 months ago

      Only the orientals wear masks in public silly because of their dirty air and wet markets or something idk I can’t commit to this bit.