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What was the last major belief you took a 180 on? What caused you to change your mind? (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 4 points 15 hours ago* (1 child)

1 in 200? No. Funny how the ones who don't provide sources are the ones who spread nonsense.

1 Billion people a year get it. That is roughly 1 in 8.

Of these 3-5 million get severe illness, and out of that you get roughly 300-600k deaths.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago

    Oh, you know what? I misread the statistics site and read NSW's rate as the entire country's. It's actually around one in 100

    https://immunisationcoalition.org.au/influenza-statistics/

    There have been 254,485 notifications of laboratory confirmed influenza reported to the NNDSS in the year to 9 November 2026.

    With a population of 27 million, that's one in 100.

    The reason it's 1 in 100 in this country, and 1 in 8 worldwide, is because of our great healthcare system and protective social determinants of health, like nutrition and daily hygiene.

    Since this is Lemmy, I assumed most people commenting would be from rich countries like Australia, so an Australian statistic would have better applicability to this population than a global statistic.

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