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Covid IFR is below the flu now, after everyone has become vaccinated and after omicron swept through and infected most of the US.

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Isn't it still more contagious though? IFR is only half the equation of total fatalities...

Covid is killing about 150,000 people a year where influenza averages about 30,000.

So no.

IFR means "infection fatality rate". The operative word is rate. So no, you are completely wrong.

You are comparing number of deaths as opposed to rate of death per infection. The number of COVID infections are orders of magnitude higher than the number of flu infections. The rate of death from COVID per infection is now lower than the flu.

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