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2023-06-25 07:32:18 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 267DE47B4BFE07604751ED9C179B577C609ED209C7C4DFCFE350EC7B0E0D2723
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The flu was not rebranded as COVID-19. The flu is derived from the influenza virus, COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2 a coronavirus. They are not caused by the same pathogen. The flu typically kills 12,000-60,000 annually in U.S. COVID-19 killed over 345,000 in 2020 alone https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-is-not-flu/ https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234
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