{"id":28538,"date":"2020-07-07T19:48:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T09:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28538"},"modified":"2020-07-07T19:48:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T09:48:48","slug":"the-seasonal-flu-virus-infects-5-million-cases-worldwide-650000-deaths-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28538","title":{"rendered":"The Seasonal Flu Virus Infects 5 Million Cases Worldwide, 650,000 Deaths Annually"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just to put things in perspective, the normal influenza is far more dangerous to under 60 year olds than SARS-CoV-2. For people under 60 the SARS-CoV-2 death rate is equal to or less than the normal flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-global-research\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GQR61oMbFV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/flu-bigger-concern-wuhan-virus-grabs-headlines\/5701932\">5 Million Cases Worldwide, 650,000 Deaths Annually: The Seasonal Flu Virus is a &#8220;Serious Concern&#8221;, But the Wuhan Coronavirus Grabs the Headlines<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;5 Million Cases Worldwide, 650,000 Deaths Annually: The Seasonal Flu Virus is a &#8220;Serious Concern&#8221;, But the Wuhan Coronavirus Grabs the Headlines&#8221; &#8212; Global Research\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/flu-bigger-concern-wuhan-virus-grabs-headlines\/5701932\/embed#?secret=GQR61oMbFV\" data-secret=\"GQR61oMbFV\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to put things in perspective, the normal influenza is far more dangerous to under 60 year olds than SARS-CoV-2. For people under 60 the SARS-CoV-2 death rate is equal to or less than the normal flu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28539,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28538\/revisions\/28539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}