I’m a physician. We test for Influenza EVVERY SINGLE DAY. Multiple times.
I have not sen 1 positive case this year. NOT ONE. Everyone in my practice and all the physicians I know are getting the same results.
Influenza is a non factor this year.
Could be the vaccine is effective for once.
Also we were all wearing masks, distancing and washing our hands BEFORE traditional flu season started and that may have kept it from getting a foothold like in a normal year.
But for whatever reason, we just are not seeing influenza this year.
Roughly from your involvement, what number or pct are Covid positive?
Thanks
I had an eyer Dr. appt. yesterday and just conversationally asked if a magic wand was waved and all masks and distancing was proven bunk and the entire state would go back to normal Monday ....
.. and she anticipated my question and said, "I'd still wear a mask ... I've learned how dangerous other people can be with passing germs and colds around"
There you have it ..... an educated professional, successfully terrorized .... with a smiling lamb going to the slaughter face
Lack of international travel is likely the reason behind the reduction in yearly flu cases.
If you had a thermometer that told you the temperature outdoor wae 103 degrees today, would you trust it?
Yes, wearing masks, gloves, washing, keeping distance from people does have a positive apparent impact on the flu. It does not, though, scene have much impact on Covid
Maybe for those who have gotten it but what about the vast numbers who haven't?
Only 165 hospitalized with influenza? Somebody is screwing with the numbers deliberately and I believe the author is spot on........
It’s a miracle! Covid really did kill the Flu!
“””Also we were all wearing masks, distancing and washing our hands BEFORE traditional flu season started and that may have kept it from getting a foothold like in a normal year.
But for whatever reason, we just are not seeing influenza this year.””””
I also am not surprised at the low numbers for regular influenza cases. When people intentionally do not closely interact with other people the opportunity for a virus to spread is reduced.
I suspect we will also see a reduction in auto accidents and deaths in 2020.
On the other hand the deaths from suicides and drug overdoses will likely be higher in 2020.
Australia, NZ, and Chile had identical results during Southern Hemisphere Winter season.
Australia had 37 000 cases in 2019 and 103 this year.
Could be that the people who normally would have gotten the flu got covid instead. Can one have flu and covid at the same time?
We’ve been told from the beginning that the Covid tests which aren’t really tests can’t differentiate between the normal flu and the Covid flu...
Funny, I’m a Family Practitioner (30 years come June) working in an urgent care/primary care practice and of the 40-60 patients per site per day about 75% of them are for covid testing. Travel, “exposure” (like someone at the warehouse a week ago had covid diagnosed but nobody was within 6 feet for 15 minutes as per CDC definition of “exposure” so the whole shop is told by the owner’s nurse wife that EVERYONE needs to get tested), follow up testing (unnecessary per health department guidelines, but again, fear, panic, anxiety and lawyers drive up the test counts) and not only are we seeing from 4-6 covid positive tests a day (about 8 to 10 percent of tests done), we’re still seeing 1 or 2 flu cases a day.
Now, this is ONLY 13 clinics in the greater Baltimore-Washington region and there are hundreds of urgent care practices, maybe ten times as many private practices if not hundreds all doing testing, and I’ll venture to say NONE of us is reporting influenza cases to the health dept. or CDC directly.
As a matter of fact, we have been told by management after conferring with local infectious disease consultants AND the manufacturer to IGNORE influenza-positive tests on the Quidel Duo (SARS/influenza) test as they are ALL false positives.
But we’re to believe the SARS test result is accurate?
If 2/3 of the test is INaccurate, how am I supposed to believe in the value of a positive test for the other 1/3?
So CDC is going it’s own surveillance, and I think it’s bullshit.
There’s a LOT of influenza going around - last summer, 2020, I was seeing influenza B cases every day, but CDC’s website/MMWR data stopped doing surveillance and reporting on flu in May, IIRC so they can happily report “flu season is over.”
Funny thing about viruses. They don’t understand seasons, borders, passports, immigration and customs and just travel anywhere anytime they “want.” Four common strains of coronavirus cause what, 15-20% of ALL “head colds” worldwide, year-round?
And Sydney, Australia to BWI airport is only what, 17 hours? Time enough to incubate, then spread among the passengers and to someone just sneezed upon - or near - in the hallway heading to the men’s room.
Asymptomatic shedding is a thing, despite WHO, CDC and St. Anthony Fasci lying to us about it for so long last year.
Influenza, parainfluenza, RSV, enteroviruses of several types, coronavirus, all can and do cause syndromes virtually indistinguishable from “COVID19” - but our infectious disease specialist tells us, although there are over 200 known strains of virus that cause URI/LRI and viral syndromes (common cold”), we’re now treating everything as if it’s SARS-CoV-2 (COVID19).
Something definitely stinks in Atlanta, and Bethesda, and The Hague.
Two weeks to flatten the curve, a year to accept communism.
Or else.
Sometimes you find what you’re looking for.
Thank you for your service first off. I ask that you do not take my post as though I’m trying to contradict...just thoughts on my mind sir.
As you claim, the absence of Influenza diagnosis could be related to wearing masks, distancing, washing of hands BEFORE traditional flu season started..doesn’t make since.
Traditional influenza season began around December +- of 2019. The pandemic wasn’t declared until March of 2020 by the WHO. Masks, distancing and lock downs all didn’t take hold until late spring of 2020.
Furthermore, it is hard to believe that yearly strains of influenza did not migrate North across the Southern border considering third world conditions along the border with Mexico. Ever been to the Mexican border? It’s an unsanitary cesspool void of adequate infrastructure in regards to sanitation.
Your post->”Could be the vaccine is effective for once”. Is it accurate to state that only 40-50% of the U.S. population receives a yearly influenza vaccine? Isn’t it also accurate to say that the influenza vaccine is typically only 60% effective? I say that to say this...NOT ONE diagnosed influenza case from your practice?
Are Covid diagnosis being compensated differently than typical yearly influenza cases?
Where are the influenza and Covid test kits manufactured? Would it be China? Curious.
Are Chinese Covid / influenza vaccines being imported to the U.S.?
Seeing as we are in the throws of a worldwide declared Covid pandemic, if a patient comes in to your practice with flu like symptoms, do you test for Covid first? If so and if the patient tests positive for Covid, do you then go on to test for influenza strains?
I’m with you on this one. I love the egregious statements on Covid is misdiagnosed. This putz who wrote this has no understanding of the rapid tests and they actually tell us what we are dealing with. And Covid cannot be confused with influenza on RAA testing.
Another screed of conspiracy of extraordinary proportion by another armchair quarterback
I, too, have run influenza swabs on everyone and I have seen all of two positive cases. Both influenza B
Stay safe and be well.
Also we were all wearing masks, distancing and washing our hands BEFORE traditional flu season started and that may have kept it from getting a foothold like in a normal year.
Sheeple staying home may of had an impact but social distancing and mask definitely didn’t and mask don’t work, never have and never will for this type of disease. That’s reality and real science not political science proves that out.
The influenza numbers being reported are just as fake as the the COVID crap.
Since flu is also a air-borne respiratory virus, masks would have no effect on it, either. So, that can’t be “IT”.
But, you may have nailed it with the “flu vaccine might have done the job”, sorta. Please forgive any misquote.
Historically, flu vaccines are ~50% effective. Not that they don’t defeat the virus. If the vaccine matches the public virus variant then there is a preventative effect.
Rather, it is that flu vaccines at best can target only 6 variants/season. Every season there are numerous variants running about across the world. But, the producers have to pick 6. If they pick the wrong ones, we get a bad season. It’s a crap shoot.
What is more believable is that all flu cases are being systmatically misdiagnosed as Wuhan — by orders of the CDC. By CDC guidelines, you are diagnosed (without testing) as having Covid if you present flu-like symptoms.
I do not believe the doc claiming that he’s testing for flu and not seeing it. Too many “doctors” have sold out or taken the knee to beleive this without widespread corroboration.
What company is processing your tests? Or who makes your test kits? Could it be that there is collusion suppressing results?
I had an uncle get the flu and covid at the same time. Tested positive for both. So, there is one for you.