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This line of thinking isn’t entirely accurate nor inclusive of a few other facts.

The CDC maintains several “sentinal” testing sites, not ALL clinics nor clinicians testing for influenza are required to report test results.

THROUGHOUT the early Covid19 SCAMdemic, the clnics where I worked continued to see POSITIVE influenza tests, both Flu A as well as B (as a matter of fact, Flu B never really goes away, we saw postive test results every year throughout the summer months as well). What changed was, we were told by management - as advised by the state of Maryland’s health department - to call ALL such results “false positives” and NOT treat those patients for influenza but for COVID instead.

I said the hell with that and continued to code for influenza (or acute Flue-like illness, NOS if their covid rapid antigen test was negative), prescribing the usual array of antivirals which have been proven (relatively) safe and (arguably) effective.

My patients got better quicker.

Pretty soon our coding sections on our computers were changed, we could no longer say the patient had flu.

There was more money in diagnosing Covid19, I believe.

I stopped seeing patients in Dec., of 2021, a year after having Covid myself (antivirals didn’t touch that).

I knew the shots were worthless within 2 months of their roll-out, patients were coming in SICKER than the usual covid patients with positive rapid antigen tests AND confirmatory PCR tests (another bag of worms), all saying “I can’t have Covid, I had the shots and a booster).

“our coding sections on our computers were changed, we could no longer say the patient had flu”

If someone wrote a novel on that theme they would be dismissed as a paranoid crank.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Thanks for the details—I thought something like that was happening....