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Alberta's COVID-19 death toll more than 4 times higher than flu over past year (www.cbc.ca)
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A year's worth of respiratory virus data for Alberta reveals, once again, COVID-19 is far deadlier than the flu.

The death toll due to the two illnesses, combined, topped 900 over the past year.

More than four times as many Albertans died due to COVID compared to influenza.

Alberta's respiratory dashboard shows flu was responsible for 177 deaths while 732 people died of COVID-19 (between Aug. 27, 2023, and Aug. 24, 2024).

"This is continual evidence that COVID is not just another flu," said Craig Jenne, professor in the department of microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Calgary, noting influenza is not a benign virus.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Blah, fair enough, that's what I get for posting before my first coffee.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've done the same thing once, except it was saying Vancouver instead of British Columbia πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ