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Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88
This is not an apples to apples comparison at this point.
There are far less diagnosed cases of COVID-19 than the seasonal flu at this point.
As the testing becomes more widespread there are going to be more confirmed cases of COVID-19 in people who have just minor symptoms (and before widespread testing they could have easily passed their symptoms off as the cold and not a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis).
Right now the majority of people who are getting the confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis skew to be more sick which is why they are at a hospital/doctor and able to get the testing.
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It would be interesting to know the math behind both sides of the graph... you can say the same thing for the flu side, meaning the majority of people don't exhibit symptoms at all and many more aren't tested, so it would require some estimations.
If the flu side already has estimations built in, I'd think they would carry over the same estimations for Coronavirus and wouldn't necessarily need official test results to determine those numbers.