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New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn
(www.independent.co.uk)
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COVID is basically a year round disease where flu is seasonal. So yeah it's gonna produce about an order of magnitude more death with just a few percent higher death rate.
That's how I understood it, too. Turns out it's a difficult thing to comprehend, though.