Fresh out of Walter Reed medical center, President Trump compared Covid-19 to the flu. Experts say he's wrong.
Later Tuesday morning, Twitter shielded the president's tweet and slapped a warning label on it, saying the post"violated the Twitter Rules about spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19." The company said it would not remove the tweet because"it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible." Separately, Facebook deleted Trump's same comment on its platform.— between the flu and Covid-19.
The CDC, however, says that compared to the flu, Covid-19 is more contagious among certain populations and age groups and it has more superspreading events. Young healthy children, meanwhile, are at a higher risk of severe illness from the flu compared to Covid-19. While Trump seemed to suggest that Covid-19 can be less deadly than the flu, the CDC says on its website,"While there is still much to learn about COVID-19, at this time, it does seem as if COVID-19 is more deadly than seasonal influenza; however, it is too early to draw any conclusions from the current data."
The CDC says"getting a flu vaccine is more important than ever during 2020-2021 to protect yourself and the people around you from flu, and to help reduce the strain on healthcare systems responding to the COVID-19 pandemic." The CDC says that itIn addition, while many states did shut down at the height of the pandemic earlier this year,
, while others are in the process of reopening, are pausing those plans or are reversing their timelines to reopen.
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