COVID today is very different to the Covid we originally faced in 2020

Covid19 was up to 13 times deadlier than flu especially in over 50s when it first appeared, but immunity and Omicron made it like flu, although it’s still 2 times deadlier in over 60s.

Originally tweeted by Luke O’Neill (@laoneill111) on January 31, 2022.

Retrying that animation:@zorinaq made a brilliant chart in 2020 showing how Covid’s IFR compared to flu at different ages

I’ve used age-specific rates of infection and death (from @ONS, of course) to see how the gap has narrowed in England pic.twitter.com/hjTa3nRWJE
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) January 31, 2022

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