Dispatch 1: Numbers
Radiolab
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Coronavirus
There have been more flu deaths from non-COVID-19 related flu than from this one. Overall coronavirus has a higher death rate than the flu. But it's not really about like the direct comparison. It's just like, what would my emotional reaction to like the flu be? If every morning I woke up and they told me how many people died of the flu.
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