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Two years into this global pandemic, many misguided people are still comparing Covid-19 to influenza.
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1,600 death in a week in 2018 was tragic, but those influenza spikes are barely visible when compared to the tragic scale of Covid-19, and even more so given a simple cloth mask and vaccines that prevent most deaths.