Is coronavirus worse than flu? How contagious and deadly regular flu is compared to coronavirus

While the two present a lot of similar symptoms, there is significant evidence already to suggest that coronavirus poses a very different threat to seasonal flu. Although the flu kills thousands of people every year, it is much more of a known quantity than the coronavirus. Regular flu is something we are well used to dealing with, as Dr Anthony Fauci from America’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases explained: 'I can tell you all, guaranteed, that as we get into March and April, the flu cases are going to go down. You could predict pretty accurately what the range of the mortality is and the hospitalizations' Fauci said. 'The issue now is that there's a lot of unknowns.'