> 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

> 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