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<blockquote data-quote="MAKAVELI" data-source="post: 4450209" data-attributes="member: 43825"><a href="https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/article/6708" target="_blank">https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/article/6708</a>CLAIM: COVID-19 is just like the fluVERDICT: FalseAnthony Fauci, MD, director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), debunked certain COVID-19 myths in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2YKKba6ps0" target="_blank">interview</a> with media personality Lilly Singh. A big misperception—even among physicians—is that COVID-19 is akin to the seasonal flu.“[COVID-19] is [not] like the seasonal flu. It transmits much more rapidly,” Dr. Fauci explained. “The mortality of the seasonal flu that you and I experience every season is about 0.1%—the mortality of [COVID-19] is about 1%, which means it’s 10 times more lethal. In seasonal flu, we have never seen hospital rooms—hospital intensive care units—overrun: where you run out of beds and you run out of ventilators. We’ve seen that all over the world. We’re seeing it in Europe[and] we’re seeing it in New York City.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MAKAVELI, post: 4450209, member: 43825"] [URL]https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/article/6708[/URL] [SIZE=5][B]CLAIM: COVID-19 is just like the flu[/B] [B]VERDICT: False[/B] [B]Anthony Fauci, MD, director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), debunked certain COVID-19 myths in an [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2YKKba6ps0'][U]interview[/U][/URL] with media personality Lilly Singh. A big misperception—even among physicians—is that COVID-19 is akin to the seasonal flu. “[COVID-19] is [not] like the seasonal flu. It transmits much more rapidly,” Dr. Fauci explained. “The mortality of the seasonal flu that you and I experience every season is about 0.1%—the mortality of [COVID-19] is about 1%, which means it’s 10 times more lethal. In seasonal flu, we have never seen hospital rooms—hospital intensive care units—overrun: where you run out of beds and you run out of ventilators. We’ve seen that all over the world. We’re seeing it in Europe[and] we’re seeing it in New York City.” [/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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