Is it true that flu deaths have almost vanished this fall and early winter?
In Upstate NY, anyway, yes.
Can’t recall the article that I saw on FR a couple of weeks ago, but a researcher pointed out that there was appreciable difference in the number of deaths between the years 2018 and 2020. The only appreciable difference was that there were far fewer deaths from Cancer, flu, pneumonia, heart disease, kidney failure, cirrhosis of the liver, etc. The number of COVID deaths made up the balance to bring the number on par with previous years.
Not really. Flu peaks happen at different times different years. Flu peak was very early in the 2019-2020 season. More often, seasonal flu will peak in January or February. Sometimes it’ll happen as late as March.
Flu season has been light so far this year with a bit over 700 positive cases. That’s not unheard of. We’re within the range of “normal” for flu thus far. If we get into March without much activity, that’s a good time to really start digging into why.
Yes, I just looked at the CDC influenza page “Seasonal influenza activity in the United States remains lower than usual for this time of year.” The entire country is some shade of green, no red or yellow.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
I am too tired to turn this link into HTML so you can just copy and paste.
Anyway, it says the CDC announced that for the week of 13-19 December the number of flu cases was less than 40.
I have been looking at the numbers since before this crap started and have been talking to deaf ears (not those here at FR) that this is all a statistical hoax that is intended to destroy our Country.
Oops! I forgot the link.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cdc-reports-record-low-positive-flu-tests