Can I just add that seasonal influenza varies widely from year to year? [0] It just so happens that this year was a moderately bad year in the US. I don't know

Can I just add that seasonal influenza varies widely from year to year? [0] It just so happens that this year was a moderately bad year in the US. I don't know about China. But, they'd have to exclude differences from a bad flu season to have any chance of proving their point rigorously. It's a very cool analysis though. 0. https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/hcp/weekly-surveillance04252020.pdf https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/hcp/weekly-sur... (sorry for the PDF)