Flu and covid are two different viral infections. testing does not overlap. A flu infection will not give a positive covid test or vice versa. While we have t seen much fly yet there may be a couple reasons. Those getting tests for covid who are negative may not pursue further testing to determine if they have flu. it is also early, there are many years where influenza season has not started until January or even February
They are making physicians count anyone with a fever as covid POSITIVE.
And this is important: They must be counted as covid positive if they have a fever EVEN IF THEY TEST NEGATIVE FOR COVID.
So a person could have a fever from influenza A or B, but they are all counted as COVID patients!
A person could have a fever from a bladder infection, but they are still thrown into the covid count simply because they have a fever.
Therefore, the daily covid counts and deaths include anything that causes a fever.
It mandated by the state health department and is grossly inflating covid cases and covid deaths.
It is lying!
Yes there is. There have been 287,000 flu tests conducted this flu season and over 660 positive tests. Source. Flu season peaks at different times each year, more often than not that peak happens in January or February. Source.
"Used to kill 50k to 80k per year"
No it didn't. Seasonal flu kills an average of 36,000 people per year; not 50,000-80,000. Preliminary estimates for the 2019-2020 flu season are 22,000 deaths in total. Source.
" He makes a good point. Heard NOTHING about the flu this winter.. "
No he doesn't. The tweet is nonsense posted to stir up fear and confusion in those too ignorant to know better and too lazy to find out. Don't be led around like a puppy. Do your own research against any claims anyone makes, including me. But please be sure to research against authoritative sources and not nutjob conspiracy theory websites or Fakebook.
Covid 19 killed the flu.
HOORAY WAR
The MOST EVIL pre-meditated hoax ever perpetrated on civilization.
Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(and in this interconnected communication age???...amazing)
Nailed it
I agree !!
t” Heard NOTHING about the flu this winter“
That’s pretty easy.
People aren’t going out near as much do the flu isn’t spreading .
Total nonsense.
We test for the flu all the time.
Just not seeing it this year.
Could be just a weak strain. Could be the masks, hand washing and social distancing.
Bottom line. There is very little flu this season. Thank God.
"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm#ILIMap.
We are masked and practicing social distancing. That means lower cold and flu numbers
Yes, according to the CDC accumulated data and their own statements, the flu season this year is unusually low.
But is it really? Is not “Covid-19” about to join Influenza A and Influenza B as just another one of the typical “seasonal flu” bugs, and as in the past, which MOST people will either not be bothered by or will survive if they are bothered by them? Yes, that regularity, at mature (reduced) rates is what can be expected to happen with Covid-19. Herd immunity will develop one way or another and the “pandemic” nature of the bug will end, while the bug itself will not go away.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
Just a few weeks ago only IOWA was reporting a flu outbreak.
I just checked the CDC website and see only OKLAHOMA is reporting moderate flu and the rest of the country is at minimal.
I’m sure most flu cases are being called COVID for political as well as financial reasons.
Vitamin D3 reduces covid19 and flu mortality
Of course not. We never went into fly season with no restaurants, no schools, everyone masked and 6 ft apart, no holidays, no parties. Of course that would have an effect.
However, we may be making ourselves into susceptible sterile mice. We need that interaction (and these viruses etc) to keep the main part of our population strong.