Are coronavirus precautions lowering flu infection rates? COVID-19 is a flu-like illness that has killed a small fraction of the number of people that the flu kills every year. Flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 every year around the world, according to the World Health Organization. Flu kills about 0.1 percent of those it infects, but that’s still hundreds of thousands of people each year because it infects millions. There’s one big difference between flu and coronavirus: A vaccine exists to help prevent the flu and it’s not too late to get it.

Source: Fox News March 17, 2020 02:15 UTC