How coronavirus (COVID-19) compares with flu as a cause of death

Is it time to view COVID-19 as we do the flu?

View as a webpage News, stories and data visualisation 24 May 2022 How coronavirus compares with flu as a cause of death Deaths due to COVID-19 have been much lower in recent months than earlier in the pandemic. However, while we can use deaths from flu and pneumonia to put COVID-19 into context, we cannot say for certain whether the two conditions are behaving, or will behave, in similar ways in the future. Between 13 March 2020 and 1 April 2022, COVID-19 was identified as the underlying cause of death in four times as many deaths as flu and pneumonia. COVID-19 also has a different impact across age groups, with the average age of death for COVID-19 lower than for deaths due to flu and pneumonia throughout the pandemic. Read the full article

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