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https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm > How do they measure such things? By have a sophisticated surveillance netw
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https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
> How do they measure such things?
By have a sophisticated surveillance network and testing people. To quote from the above page, there have been 931,726 specimens collected since 9/2020, and only 0.2% have been positive.
Compare that number to the previous season (13.0%):
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/Week01.htm https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/Week0...