Thank you. That said, CFR’s denominator is those who show up to a hospital in bad enough shape to be tested for H5N1. All we can conclude is this appears more deadly than the flu. That’s concerning, but not what I’d consider “very deadly.”
There’s some evidence of rapidly expanding asymptomatic human -> human spread of it.
Hopefully that strain acts as an effective vaccine against the one(s) responsible for the > 50% CFR.
I’d say technically it’s not the flu. The flu is influenza A or B.