How COVID-19 compares
At the beginning of this crisis, I was telling people that COVID-19 is kind of like severe flu. I was basically right, but I was wrong in that it is much more severe than the seasonal flu.
I searched for the best visual charts that compare COVID-19 to other stuff going around, and this is what I found:
From the article Why COVID-19 is worse than the flu, in one chart by Vox:
From the article: How coronavirus symptoms compare with those of the flu, allergies, and the common cold by Business Insider.