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Meanwhile flu fatalities cratered due to the pandemic response. That's not at all clear. Different areas have had vastly different levels of response to Covid,
by orangecat 5y ago
Meanwhile flu fatalities cratered due to the pandemic response.
That's not at all clear. Different areas have had vastly different levels of response to Covid, but the flu disappeared everywhere. So either minimal levels of non-pharmaceutical interventions are sufficient to virtually eradicate the flu, or something else is going on. Viral interference seems likely: https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/31/a-viral-mystery-can-one-infection-prevent-another/ https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/31/a-viral-mystery-can-one-...
- ajross 5y agoNo, it's 100% true. Flu deaths are just data. You can't argue with data. You're engaging in excuse-making to try to rule out the most obvious hypothesis for the enormous drop in deaths. You can't deny that it happened. And while such excuses do exist, they don't represent consensus opinions anywhere. Those who believe them are essentially 1:1 with those who want to believe that covid "is only as bad as the flu", which is provably false.