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US has 'lowest flu season' on record during COVID pandemic: Whether it was social distancing or more people getting their shots, the flu season has virtually disappeared at a time when it normally hits its peak
K5 News ^ | 02/25/2021 | MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer

Posted on 02/25/2021 8:11:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Edited on 02/25/2021 8:48:36 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors' offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not this year. Flu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades.


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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid19; flu; pandemic
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1 posted on 02/25/2021 8:11:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Or just MAYbe COVID is another word for “flu”


2 posted on 02/25/2021 8:14:19 AM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because anything and everything is called COVID

Flu? COVID

Heart attack? COVID

Motorcycle accident? COVID

I actually heard a doctor say this on live radio (about the motorcycle crash) “It is possible that COVID caused him to have the crash”

If you give out money for COVID deaths then everything looks like a COVID death.

Another guy on local radio said his mother died of (basically) old age and they pressured him over and over to let them say she died of COVID so they could get money from the state.


3 posted on 02/25/2021 8:15:02 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: SeekAndFind

Where do they find these people? This guy is either utterly clueless or a normal hack lickspittle for the AMA.


4 posted on 02/25/2021 8:16:19 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: SeekAndFind

Every yer like clockwork, my household will get the flu around the end of December up into February. Nobody got sick this year. I’m guessing it’s got a lot to do with my kids not being at school right now to catch and bring something home.


5 posted on 02/25/2021 8:17:24 AM PST by Durbin
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RE: This guy is either utterly clueless or a normal hack lickspittle for the AMA.

So, what’s your explanation for the very low flu cases this season?


6 posted on 02/25/2021 8:18:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What did i hear on NBC last week about this years flu season? We have had

165 hospital cases? Not 165 THOUSAND but 165 CASES? Do people

actually believe this S***?

No, hospitals couldn’t actually be calling all flu hospital visits COVID, could

they?


7 posted on 02/25/2021 8:19:01 AM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: SeekAndFind

So, what’s your explanation for the very low flu cases this season?


Hospitals get paid for COVID cases and don’t get paid for Flu.

There you go.


8 posted on 02/25/2021 8:20:50 AM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: SeekAndFind

Flu?. It’s all covid now.


9 posted on 02/25/2021 8:21:00 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: hillarys cankles; All

RE: No, hospitals couldn’t actually be calling all flu hospital visits COVID, could they?

How difficult is it for hospitals to differentiate between Covid-19 and the seasonal flu?


10 posted on 02/25/2021 8:21:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Who cares. They will get federal money (help) if that flu case is called

COVID.

Its not hard to understand. geez.


11 posted on 02/25/2021 8:23:36 AM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: SeekAndFind

If masking up has resulted in fewer influenza cases this year, it apparently didn’t have the same effect on the China virus.


12 posted on 02/25/2021 8:24:10 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: SeekAndFind

“..So, what’s your explanation for the very low flu cases this season?..” you mean the low numbers documented? as has been mentioned before it’s a result of everything being attributed to COVID. Also given the syptoms of COVID being nearly if not identical as the common flu.


13 posted on 02/25/2021 8:24:19 AM PST by strange1 ("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
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14 posted on 02/25/2021 8:24:25 AM PST by Boogieman
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RE: Also given the syptoms of COVID being nearly if not identical as the common flu.

Surely hospitals are not that incompetent that they attribute ALL to Covid-19 symptoms that are similar to the flu? What about their touted PCR tests and all that?


15 posted on 02/25/2021 8:25:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: knarf

COVID-19 HAS been called the “Kung flu”. Perhaps the very people who were most vulnerable to a flu infections all just happened to inhale COVID-19 Wuhan virus particles first, then the symptoms of the typical influenza were masked.

In effect, these folks had a double disease, and did not even know it.

Just shows to go you, nobody knows everything.


16 posted on 02/25/2021 8:29:19 AM PST by alloysteel (Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No flu in 2020-2021, impossible.


17 posted on 02/25/2021 8:30:35 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Mr. K
Because anything and everything is called COVID
Flu? COVID
Heart attack? COVID
Motorcycle accident? COVID

My brother-in-law was on hospice care for a cancerous brain tumor... when he died there were no tests available so they called it “Presumptive Covid”.

18 posted on 02/25/2021 8:31:07 AM PST by fireman15
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To: SeekAndFind

Did everyone miss the memo declaring Influenza as COVID last year>??


19 posted on 02/25/2021 8:33:45 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Mr. K
Because anything and everything is called COVID

Exactly. We already know that they had been upping the number of COVID cases by listing anyone who died with COVID as having died from COVID. Anyone coming in with a fever and a cough would immediately be diagnosed as COVID.

20 posted on 02/25/2021 8:35:35 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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