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I've learned so much about the flu through this. Covid can rarely cause strokes, but so can the flu. The risk is 7x during covid, so it's significant, but there

I've learned so much about the flu through this. Covid can rarely cause strokes, but so can the flu. The risk is 7x during covid, so it's significant, but there's way more flu going around. This year there may be more strokes due to Covid than flu, but there's been millions of flu strokes in the last decade, which I was pretty surprised by.

woofie11 6y ago
There actually isn't more flu than Covid. This year, so far, flu is quite exceptionally rare. The social distancing measures for Covid work for flu too. Australia is down from 61,000 confirmed cases of flu last year, to just around a hundred confirmed cases. It's too early to tell in the Northern Hemisphere, but so far, things look really promising. We just might have a winter without the normal sniffles of colds on flus.