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Good point, the title of the article is: "Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?", I don't know how the HN headline came to be ("This influ
by genericone 5y ago
Good point, the title of the article is: "Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?", I don't know how the HN headline came to be ("This influenza lineage may have become extinct"), but it does seem like a very very light form of clickbait.
- perihelions 5y agoIt's a quote from the abstract. I found "influenza lineage extinction" difficult to parse, but the abstract expands it into clear English. >"In particular, the B/Yamagata lineage has not been isolated from April 2020 to August 2021, suggesting that this influenza lineage may have become extinct,"