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Britain: summer flu is now more deadly than Covid

11 August 2020

10:05 PM

11 August 2020

10:05 PM

Britain is, of course, in the middle of a deadly pandemic of a novel infectious disease. It’s just that it is not, at present, killing remotely as many people in England and Wales as that boring old disease which no-one seems ever to worry about: the summer flu. Winter flu, yes – sometimes we worry about that overwhelming the NHS.

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