Research so far indicates that COVID-19 spreads more easily and has a higher death rate than the flu.
Since the new coronavirus was first discovered in January, many people have compared it with a more well-known disease: The flu.
Many of these comparisons pointed to the perhaps underappreciated toll of the flu, which causes millions of illnesses and tens of thousands of deaths every year in the U.S. alone. (During the current flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there have been 39 million to 56 million flu illnesses and 24,000 to 62,000 flu deaths in the U.S., although that number is an estimate based on hospitalizations with flu symptoms, not based on actually counting up every person who has died of flu.)
The new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has caused more than 1 million illnesses and 60,000 deaths in the U.S. as of April 29, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Both COVID-19 and the flu are respiratory illnesses. But COVID-19 is not the flu. Research so far indicates that COVID-19 spreads more easily and has a higher death rate than the flu.
Scientists are racing to find out more about COVID-19, and our understanding may change as new information becomes available. Based on what we know so far, here’s how it compares with the flu.
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