Is COVID-19 more deadly than the flu?

We’ve seen from our data in the ZOE COVID Study app that the most common symptoms can look very much like the flu or a cold. This has led people to ask why they should worry about it if the symptoms are the same? People are treating it as the same viral infection, but the truth is that they’re very different indeed. Please note that the stats referred to in this video are from the DELTA variant of COVID-19 and do not take into account the new Omicron variant. To read more about what we know on the Omicron variant visit our blog: https://joinzoe.com/learn/new-omicron... For our blog on COVID symptoms read more here: https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/what-a... For the website visit: https://covid.joinzoe.com/​ For more localised data visit: https://covid.joinzoe.com/data​ For new vaccine data map please visit: https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#vaccin... ​​ The app is available to download from: https://api.covidradar.org/launch/ Join our newsletter to get the latest updates on ZOE's discoveries, from COVID to gut health, direct to your inbox by signing up here: http://eepurl.com/hlUh-L If you need subtitles, please click the option for subtitles at the bottom right of the video