re: The Original NBA suspends the season thread

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I assume you’re saying this on just that the flu has had more cases this year? Which would be irrelevant.

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Actually I said this because the flu spreads faster, which is how I interpreted the “spread more easily” part. Turns out the flu typically spreads faster, but coronavirus is likely to spread to more people. So, whoops I’m wrong


From the WHO:

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The speed of transmission is an important point of difference between the two viruses. Influenza has a shorter median incubation period (the time from infection to appearance of symptoms) and a shorter serial interval (the time between successive cases) than COVID-19 virus. The serial interval for COVID-19 virus is estimated to be 5-6 days, while for influenza virus, the serial interval is 3 days. This means that influenza can spread faster than COVID- 19.
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The reproductive number – the number of secondary infections generated from one infected individual – is understood to be between 2 and 2.5 for COVID-19 virus, higher than for influenza. However, estimates for both COVID-19 and influenza viruses are very context and time-specific, making direct comparisons more difficult.

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