If you’re giving the CFR for flu as deaths/symptomatic you should do the same for COVID-19: 1.23% to 1.53%. That’s a factor of seven worse.

When you consider as well that everyone is susceptible and you may have infection rates well over the 5-15% you get for flu it’s at least an order of magnitude worse.

And that's with a century of research and experience treating serious cases of influenza, and none for Covid-19.

Covid-19 is serious, but the major crisis right now is that it's new, and the medical system is struggling to adapt.

Exactly, we have both vaccines and ani-virals to use against the flu and the death rate is still that high? We've got neither of those things for Covid-19 to date...