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Dr. Drew Pinsky stated on February 03, 2020 in a Daily Blast Live segment:

“You’re more likely to die of influenza right now” than the 2019 coronavirus.

By Daniel Funke• March 10, 2020

Facebook posts stated on January 06, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Coronavirus vaccinations seem to be causing 50 times the adverse events of flu vaccinations after just the first of two shots.”

By Tom Kertscher• January 15, 2021

Facebook posts stated on January 31, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“A Miracle! Only 23 Americans Tested Positive for Flu Last Week Compared to 14,657 Cases Reported Last Year at Same Time.”

By Tom Kertscher• February 5, 2021

Facebook posts stated on April 06, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says the Asian, Hong Kong, swine and bird flus each “killed more people than coronavirus.”

By Tom Kertscher• April 14, 2020

Donald Trump stated on October 06, 2020 in a tweet:

“Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the vaccine, die from the flu … we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal."

By Jon Greenberg• October 6, 2020

Facebook posts stated on April 18, 2021 in a Facebook post:

COVID-19 “has killed less people than the damn flu.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• April 27, 2021

Tom Tiffany stated on August 08, 2021 in Twitter:

“The seasonal cold and flu is actually more dangerous for kids than the Coronavirus” and “there is very low transmissibility from children to their families and communities.”

By Allison Garfield• October 28, 2021

Viral image stated on March 13, 2020 in a viral image:

“President Trump, COVID-19 coronavirus: U.S. cases 1,329; U.S. deaths, 38; panic level: mass hysteria. President Obama, H1N1 virus: U.S. cases, 60.8 million; U.S. deaths, 12,469; panic level: totally chill. Do you all see how the media can manipulate your life.”

By Tom Kertscher• March 18, 2020

Dan Forest stated on September 02, 2020 in an interview:

"All evidence points to the fact that our kids are 17 times more likely to have ill effects from the seasonal flu than they are from the coronavirus.”

By Paul Specht• September 14, 2020

Ron Johnson stated on August 13, 2020 in radio interview:

For younger people, seasonal flu is “in many cases” a deadlier virus than COVID-19

By Madeline Heim• September 8, 2020

Instagram posts stated on March 02, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“The CDC officially agrees with ‘conspiracy theorists’ from 2020” who wanted to treat COVID-19 like the flu.

By Jeff Cercone• March 8, 2024

Ron DeSantis stated on August 10, 2020 in during a televised roundtable discussion on education:

“The fact is that in terms of the risk to schoolkids, this is lower risk than seasonal influenza.”

By Phil Galewitz• August 20, 2020

Dan Forest stated on April 24, 2020 in an interview:

"We’ve still had more deaths to the flu this year than we've had COVID-19."

By Paul Specht• May 6, 2020

Chad Wolf stated on February 25, 2020 in an exchange during a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing:

The mortality rate for the flu is “right around” that of the new coronavirus: “It’s right around 2%.”

By Victoria Knight• March 2, 2020

Tom McClintock stated on April 29, 2020 in an interview on CapRadio's Insight program.:

“The flu killed 80,000 Americans last year according to the CDC.”

By Chris Nichols• May 5, 2020

Donald Trump stated on January 05, 2026 in a graphic on Truth Social and Instagram:

The former U.S. childhood vaccine schedule called for babies to get “72 injections.”

By Grace Abels, Loreben Tuquero• January 15, 2026

Gretchen Whitmer stated on April 15, 2020 in an April 15, 2020 press conference:

“During the flu pandemic of 1918, some cities lifted social distancing measures too fast, too soon, and created a second wave of pandemic.”

By Amy Sherman• April 17, 2020

Reiner Fuellmich stated on December 30, 2021 in a video:

"Even the WHO has conceded that the (SARS- CoV-2) virus … is no more dangerous than the common flu, with an infection fatality rate of 0.14%."

By Jill Terreri Ramos• January 19, 2022

Facebook posts stated on April 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The flu killed 80,000 people in the U.S. last year”

By Amy Sherman• May 6, 2020

Instagram posts stated on December 06, 2022 in a video:

There are a record high cases of flu in the U.S. this year, and “last year there were none.”

By Jeff Cercone• December 15, 2022

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