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Those symptoms are consistent with the dozens of common cold viruses that haven't diseappeared. Consider that many people get COVID tests because they are sympt
by incrudible 6y ago
Those symptoms are consistent with the dozens of common cold viruses that haven't diseappeared. Consider that many people get COVID tests because they are symptomatic, yet most of them are negative.
- alacombe 6y agoAccording to https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/flu-influenza/influenza-surveillance/weekly-reports-2020-2021-season.html https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/flu..., there has been pretty much no flu season this year compared to ~any other year (which in itself is highly suspect). Last week of January reported 55 vs 23,972 on average any other season.
- lostlogin 6y agoI’m missing your angle - why is it suspect that there are so few cases?
- Izkata 6y agoBecause the symptoms are so similar, it's possible it's still spreading but to the same people getting covid and people are only being diagnosed with covid.
- DanBC 6y agoYou might want to check how they count flu in normal years.
- incrudible 6y agoInfluenza is not the same as the common cold, which is also sometimes referred to as "the flu". Besides influenza-types, there are a couple of viruses that cause the common cold, among them the aptly named rhinoviruses but also other coronaviruses. Indeed there's a suspicious drop in influenza-type cases, likely caused by all the social distancing and perhaps by SarS-COV-2 simply out-competing influenza-types in knocking people out.
- randomopining 6y agoI've never had a cold without some level of nasal congestion. That's the only reason that I think it was most likely covid.
- dralley 6y agoI believe I remember hearing some time ago that the most common and reliable symptom was loss of smell and/or taste.