In the unvaccinated, Covid is actually less deadly than the flu for the youngest cohort

Omicron Variant Meets Our Public-Policy Mess: Americans are having to adapt instinctively because they are led and informed badly by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Excerpt:

"Oxford University’s Our World in Data, perhaps because its website is frequently consulted by media types, takes pains for the especially thick of head: “There is a straightforward question that most people would like answered. If someone is infected with COVID-19, how likely is that person to die? The key point is that the case fatality rate (CFR)—the most commonly discussed measure—is not the answer to the question.”

In the unvaccinated, Covid is actually less deadly than the flu for the youngest cohort. For the middle-aged and up, Covid can be a killer. Unvaccinated, the death rate for the 55-65 age group is 0.75%, much lower than the Bloomberg estimate but still several times this group’s annual risk in its encounter with the flu.

However, when vaccinated are compared with vaccinated, as most in this age group now are, Covid is significantly less deadly than the flu, thanks to the excellence of our Covid vaccines."