vivster said: Sorry, but that is just absolute bullshit. Maybe the line becomes blurrier when you compare a bad cold with a light flu instead of the other way around. You talk as if the flu has only one mode and is as strong for everyone. Same with a cold. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/03/17/290878964/even-if-you-dont-have-symptoms-you-may-still-have-the-flu Might as well start claiming that people who only have a sore throat cannot have COVID-19 because they are not dying. |
It should be obvious there must be many mild cases of the flu, or otherwise it wouldn't spread so effectively each season.
For the US.
If up to 14% of the population was puking in bed for a week each year, more would be done on prevention :/