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Wow, I always knew Flu was seasonal, but never realized how extreme that was. Looking at the North America graph, basically after May, the flu almost entirely d
by ehsankia 5y ago
Wow, I always knew Flu was seasonal, but never realized how extreme that was. Looking at the North America graph, basically after May, the flu almost entirely disappears until the end of summer. Roughly 3 orders of magnitude difference between the peak and summer time. I would've thought it was closer to maybe 10x.
- vanshg 5y agoI wonder if it's because folks who were feeling sick got tested for Covid first, and upon a negative Covid result, assumed (likely correctly) that it was just flu and didn't get a flu test
- trutannus 5y agoI think you're on the right track, likely our optics into the flu has disappeared. Not the flu itself.
- alliao 5y agoin new zealand at least the disappearance of flu is genuine, as hospitals routinely checks and it just never showed up
- ehsankia 5y agoDid you reply to the wrong person? Your reply has nothing to do with what I said. I was referring the pre-covid times, the first graph shown shows that Flu went to near 0 in the summer every year, even before covid.