3 ms·
Why do people always says this? I've had the flu, I'm sure nearly everyone has had it once. It's not really incredibly uncommon.
by bamboozled 5y ago
Why do people always says this?
I've had the flu, I'm sure nearly everyone has had it once. It's not really incredibly uncommon.
- bawolff 5y agoPeople do tend to conflate all sorts of "coughs" together as the "flu", including many illnesses that are a lot more mild than the flu.
- Marsymars 5y ago> People do tend to conflate all sorts of "coughs" together as the "flu", including many illnesses that are a lot more mild than the flu. People do, but if you look at CDC estimates, tens of millions of people get influenza in any given year, so it's fairly like that any given adult individual has contracted influenza multiple times in their life. Disease Burden of Influenza: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html