BOSTON - A hospital in Boston compared data between COVID-19 patients and that of previous flu seasons, and found the novel coronavirus had a far more devastating impact.New research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center looked at data from all flu patients the hospital admitted over the past five years, which totaled more than 1,000 people.
The same hospital treated 583 COVID-19 patients in March and April.Researchers identified 119 deaths in two months from COVID-19, compared to 34 deaths in 40 months — or five seasons — from influenza.“COVID-19 resulted in more hospitalizations, higher morbidity, and higher mortality than influenza at the same hospital,” researchers wrote in the pre-publication paper. RELATED: Could your symptoms be.