Difference between 2018 and 2020
You hear and read it again and again: the flu of 2018 was much worse than because there were 9000 deaths from the flu.
In a previous blog I already explained why that number is wrong and why you can not compare it with the state at the moment. (see link at the bottom)
There are other differences that make this flu completely different from that of 2018. Although the virus that went around at that time was a new mutation, it was from a type of virus that we had known for a long time. Part of the population was already a little immune to that. In addition, they also knew quite well how to treat it. A large part of the resulting pneumonia was not caused by the virus itself but had a bacterial cause and could be treated with antibiotics.
The Corona virus is a new virus that probably no one has resisted and the flu shot has no control over. Now it is also the virus itself that causes the pneumonia and antibiotics do not help.
There is another major difference, as shown by the statistics of the weekly mortality rates. Pay attention to all the people who die. In 2018, that figure rose slowly from 3027 in week 49 (2017) to 3937 in week 9 (2018). There is a period of12weeks between.
