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The difference might be in flu deaths being confounded by C19 deaths in vulnerable populations. An example might be a person with a weakened immune system. In a
by adolph 6y ago
The difference might be in flu deaths being confounded by C19 deaths in vulnerable populations. An example might be a person with a weakened immune system. In an alternate timeline without C19 they would have died of flu. In the real world they caught C19 first and died of that instead.
- darkerside 6y agoThis makes a lot of sense
- adolph 6y agoI would not claim that it accounts for all flu avoidance, but some nontrivial portion of missing flu deaths. Additionally I would not be surprised if flu deaths remained lower for several years since C19 appeared to be more severe than flu in vulnerable populations. Future flu deaths were likely preempted by C19. Paralleling the term herd immunity, this would be called culling the herd.