Guardian March 16, 2020
Speaking on Monday at the T&T Chamber of Commerce’s conference—Combatting COVID-19, Is your workplace ready?—Dr Eldonna Boisson, Advisor on Disease Surveillance and Epidemiology for PAHO and the World Health Organisation (WHO) Caribbean Sub Region, said those numbers must be kept in perspective.
"We have had 5,000 deaths worldwide from COVID but for this flu season, from October to now in the US alone, there have been 11,000 deaths due to influenza, the flu. And this is a good year, some years we have as much as 60,000 deaths," Boisson said.
She said globally, the number of flu deaths range between 250,000 to 600,000.
"So 5,000, while it may sound big but let's put it in context—we are saying don't panic, this is a relatively mild disease compared to others."
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