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2023-06-25 04:27:47 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5464314266A57C91F18304A9F4295BBC0A1D6B512C1E2A51E8B9A6FB3014EF2D
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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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