"However you slice it, there was never an instance where COVID-19 was milder than the flu," says Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly of Washington University in St. Louis, who has done research comparing COVID to the flu. "We've never, ever in the history of the pandemic, in all our studies from the beginning until now, have found that COVID-19 is equally risky to the flu," Al-Aly says. "It's always carried a higher risk."
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Ziyad Al-Aly as quoted by Rob Stein, “Scientists debate how lethal COVID is. Some say it's now less risky than flu”, NPR, (September 16, 2022)
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