T
he death rate among hospitalised Covid-19 patients is three times higher than that of people admitted for the flu, according to a new study.
The review, published in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal, saw researchers compare national French data from 89,530 coronavirus patients admitted to hospital over a two-month period in spring 2020, with 45,819 flu patients admitted over a three-month period during the seasonal flu outbreak of 2018-19.
Among several revelations was that 15,104 of those hospitalised in France with Covid died as a result of the virus, whereas 2,640 succumbed to the flu.
