Posted on 01/05/2022 10:24:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Californians woke up to the ominous news, reported by CBSLA:
BREAKING: A COVID testing site at the Getty Center has detected LA’s first case of flurona, a combination of influenza and coronavirus.
Oh no. Lock it all down right now.
#BREAKING: A COVID testing site at the Getty Center has detected LA's first case of flurona, a combination of influenza and coronavirus. https://t.co/POJ29MnEZD
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) January 5, 2022
CBS’ terrible wording claims that there’s a new variant, a combination of COVID and influenza. Obviously that must be so much worse and DEADLY.
I regret to inform LA County Public Health Director Not-a-Doctor Barbara Ferrer that the CBS report is fake news.
A (privately-run) testing site in Los Angeles recently began using dual tests “when people who had tested negative for COVID came back because they were still experiencing symptoms.” The swab can detect both Influenza A and B in addition to SARS-Co-V-2. One young man tested positive for both COVID and influenza, but the CBS report doesn’t say which type of influenza. Not a new variant of the Wuhan flu.
The not-new phenomenon is called coinfection, and according to a study published on the NIH website in June 2021, it was already happening with COVID and influenza as of September 2020. Up to 4 percent of those infected with COVID in Asia were simultaneously infected with influenza, but true worldwide numbers couldn’t be determined because the data wasn’t available. And why wasn’t the data available? Because we weren’t testing for it. Now we are in a somewhat limited way (if the government can’t get COVID tests to testing sites currently, expecting them to get dual tests out is a ludicrous proposition), and obviously the number of people coinfected will increase.
For now, expect most coinfection cases to be reported in hospitalized patients, since that’s where dual testing is most likely to take place. That’s already happening in Los Angeles, further proof that CBSLA’s BREAKING story about “the first ‘Flurona'” case in Los Angeles is fake news. They report it in their own article. Dr. Otto Yang, an infectious disease expert for UCLA Health, told the outlet that there are several people currently hospitalized with both influenza and coronavirus. He added:
If it’s a bad virus season and a lot of virus is circulating, it’s not unusual to be exposed to more than one because they all travel the same.
As testing increases we’re sure to hear of more coinfected patients, but there’s no need to be any more concerned about it than one would during any other bad virus season.
Sorry, fearmongers. Despite WaPo’s big explainer on the “phenomenon,” Flurona is never going to happen. Stop trying to make it happen.
and just like that flu is back
Remember the hubbub when it was revealed that there had hardly been any flu cases in 2020, but a massive number of COVID cases?
The gaslighters tried to tell us, Why, that's because everyone was wearing a mask! Don't you see?
Except that didn't explain the vast number of COVID cases.
And now, the general consensus is that those masks were pretty much useless, anyway.
So ... Bring on flurona! See, there actually WAS flu back there in 2020, but we just didn't know it was all mixed up with COVID! Ha ha! How silly we were!
Continually moving those goalposts and making it up as they go along.
What about of fluancer or fluaids?
” Flurona is never going to happen. Stop trying to make it happen.”
It’s not a new thing for people to worry about but it is a background concern that either covid and the flu could marry up and have a demon baby or a flu epidemic combined with covid admissions could swamp hospital resources, which is why docs advised folks to get their flu shots starting early last year.
Unvaccinated teen in Los Angeles tests positive for a co-infection of COVID-19 and the flu now being dubbed ‘flurona’
The co-infection was detected in a teenager who was returning from a trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with his family, per the 911 COVID Testing center in Brentwood....
...Co-infections have been happening since early in the pandemic, and medical experts early on warned of a “twindemic” caused by the flu and COVID-19.
https://www.businessinsider.com/unvaccinated-teen-la-tests-positive-for-co-infection-of-flurona-2022-1
Lovely new vocabulary waddling into the chitter chat courtesy of that short article by Business Insider. A lot pf “dubbing” — a new cast of words — waiting in the wings, ready for its cue.
Twindemics can be followed up with tridemics in short order. Co-infections toddles in after co-morbidities. Can co-deaths not be far behind?
Flu can’t be back.. Social distancing and mask eliminated it back in 2020 and early 2021 or so the covid cultists told us 🤣🤣🤣🤣
i thought flurona was the name for fear of brushing ones teeth with toothpaste that contains tin fluoride ...
Well apparently the high prevalence of corona virus cases offset the flu cases because of greater financial rewards at the hospital level. You must always follow the money in cases like this which will usually lead to the truth in the end. At first many were wondering if the flu had just disappeared, but later the truth became obvious.
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