Why this claim is false: The exact death rate from COVID-19 is difficult to determine, but epidemiologists assume that it is much higher than the death rate from influenza. It ranges between 0.5 and 1 percent, compared to 0.1 percent in the case of influenza. According to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, influenza causes about 12,000 to 61,000 deaths annually in the United States, while COVID-19 has caused 200,000 deaths in the United States as of mid-September. Moreover, a significant number of people are partially immune to influenza, either because of the vaccine or because they have been infected before, unlike COVID-19, which most people around the world have not had. Therefore, the Corona virus is not “just the flu.”
3 There is no need to wear a face mask
Although there is a great consensus among public health experts that wearing a face mask limits the spread of the Corona virus, many people (including President Trump) have refused to wear a mask, and even Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has issued an executive order banning local authorities Implementation of decisions related to wearing a mask. Kemp even filed a lawsuit against Keisha Lance