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Since COVID doesn't cause immunity to the flu, it can't outcompete the flu. You can, in fact, get both at the same time. Flu cases may be down due to anti-COVID
by yosito 5y ago
Since COVID doesn't cause immunity to the flu, it can't outcompete the flu. You can, in fact, get both at the same time. Flu cases may be down due to anti-COVID measures, but it hasn't been eradicated. There is plenty of flu still circulating.
Edit: Source: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2021-2022/images/WHONPHL45_small.gif https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2021-2022/image...
- Aloha 5y agoThere was effectively zero flu in Winter of 2020, it remains to be seen how much flu there will be in Winter of 2021, but since the same precautions one would take for COVID also stop flu. Beyond that, anytime anyone shows flu like symptoms they're almost automatically sent home for 5 days, until they get a clean COVID test, which basically stops flu cold in its tracks, this is how you end up irradiating something.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> this is how you end up irradiating something. “eradicating”, and that's still wrong because influenza A has nonhuman reservoir populations, and anti-COVID measure may reduce spread in the human population but they aren't going to eliminate the reservoirs.
- yosito 5y agoFlu is increasing again this winter. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2021-2022/images/WHONPHL45_small.gif https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2021-2022/image...