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with everyone washing their hands like crazy now, I wonder what the percentage of normal/everyday colds/flus will be like this year, vs other years.

pixl97 7y ago
It has already been a bad flu season and it naturally starts to taper off this time of year.
- baq 7y ago
  There’s some evidence that some of the ‘bad flu’ cases were actually covid-19, present in both the US and Italy as far back as November. Just ask if these bad flu people regained their fitness.
  - 9HZZRfNlpR 7y ago
    November? That's a long time ago, please give me more info on that.
    - baq 7y ago
      see my comment above for a bioinformatics approach and apparently the CDC now someeewhat agrees, though i know neither the guy on the video nor the source (not US citizen): https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1237974799999062016?s=20 https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/12379747999990620...
  - flukus 7y ago
    It takes about 10 weeks to go from 100 infections to half a million, if those flu cases were covid-19 the world would be in dire straits by now.
  - tn890 7y ago
    >some evidence Well, don't be afraid to share it with the world, if such evidence does exist. I highly doubt it though.
    - baq 7y ago
      https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25723 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25723 was on mobile yesterday, sorry for not providing sources
dirtyid 7y ago
The This Week in Virology podcast was discussing some anecdotal stats from doctors HK who reported lower incidents in many common seasonal disease due to better hygiene. I don't believe they have population wide compulsory quarantine, so it might just be a case of mask usage + hand washing. Would be interesting if on the whole, less people died this year due to elevated vigilance as side affect of corona response.

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with everyone washing their hands like crazy now, I wonder what the percentage of normal/everyday colds/flus will be like this year, vs other years.

by thorwasdfasdf 7y ago

pixl97 7y ago
It has already been a bad flu season and it naturally starts to taper off this time of year.
- baq 7y ago
  There’s some evidence that some of the ‘bad flu’ cases were actually covid-19, present in both the US and Italy as far back as November. Just ask if these bad flu people regained their fitness.
  - 9HZZRfNlpR 7y ago
    November? That's a long time ago, please give me more info on that.
    - baq 7y ago
      see my comment above for a bioinformatics approach and apparently the CDC now someeewhat agrees, though i know neither the guy on the video nor the source (not US citizen): https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1237974799999062016?s=20 https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/12379747999990620...
  - flukus 7y ago
    It takes about 10 weeks to go from 100 infections to half a million, if those flu cases were covid-19 the world would be in dire straits by now.
  - tn890 7y ago
    >some evidence Well, don't be afraid to share it with the world, if such evidence does exist. I highly doubt it though.
    - baq 7y ago
      https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25723 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25723 was on mobile yesterday, sorry for not providing sources
dirtyid 7y ago
The This Week in Virology podcast was discussing some anecdotal stats from doctors HK who reported lower incidents in many common seasonal disease due to better hygiene. I don't believe they have population wide compulsory quarantine, so it might just be a case of mask usage + hand washing. Would be interesting if on the whole, less people died this year due to elevated vigilance as side affect of corona response.