Covid is the name they changed it to. Remember, before it was racist, it was called the Wuhan Flu. It is extremely similar because it is an upper respiratory affecting virus with extremely similar symptoms. Without some sort of test to identify which was which, you probably couldn't differentiate the difference between the two. The death rates are also extremely similar. In the US alone, there have been typically between 35k-70k deaths from the common annual Flu every year. The biggest difference is that we don't put all the sick people with the flu into nursing homes, that would be considered insane, at least it would have been before last year.
Covid is the name they changed it to. Remember, before it was racist, it was called the Wuhan Flu. It is extremely similar because it is an upper respiratory affecting virus with extremely similar symptoms. Without some sort of test to identify which was which, you probably couldn't differentiate the difference between the two. The death rates are also extremely similar. In the US alone, there have been typically between 35k-70k deaths from the common annual Flu every year. The biggest difference is that we don't put all the sick people with the flu into nursing homes, that would be considered insane, at least it would have been before last year.