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A study published today revealed that the death rate from Covid-19 exceeds three times the number of deaths from seasonal influenza. The research, which was based on French national data and was published in the respiratory medicine journal “The Lancet” and broadcast by “the French Press Agency”, shed light on the severity of the Covid-19 disease.
The researchers compared data from 89,530 patients who were hospitalized with Covid-19 in March and April of this year with data from 45,819 patients who were hospitalized with influenza between December 2018 and the end of February 2019.
About 16.9 percent of Covid-19 patients died during the study period, which was carried out during the first wave of the epidemic that invaded Europe when doctors did not have many treatments to use in patients whose conditions were bad and the mortality rate among patients with influenza. It is 5.8%.
Catherine Quentin, a professor at the Dijon University Hospital and the French National Institute of Health (INSRM), who co-led the study, said the difference in mortality rates is “especially striking” given that the 2018/2019 flu season was the deadliest in France 5 years ago.
The study authors noted the difference in the number of cases that required transport to hospitals (twice as many people were transported to hospitals compared to influenza), which may be partly explained by people’s immunity to influenza, as either by previous infection or by vaccinations.
The researchers also found that transport to intensive care units for Covid-19 patients is higher than for influenza patients (16.3% for Covid patients compared to 10.8% for patients with influenza). with influenza), while the average period that Covid patients spend in the intensive care department is double. What people with the flu go through (15 days compared to 8 days).
The study showed that fewer children under the age of 18 are hospitalized with Covid-19 compared to influenza.
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