US 'Mysteriously' Sees Lowest Flu Season On Record During COVID Pandemic

[Visbek]

While it is possible for a person to have the flu and Covid19 at the same time. Covid tests (swab) will not show positive for flu. Antibody tests are not used to diagnose if a person has Covid-19. It is used to determine the type of coronavirus a person has.
Fact check: A swab test is highly unlikely to misdiagnose flu or common cold as COVID-19 | Reuters

Your linked article is misleading.

Yep. Also, if you go to the hospital with signs of respiratory illness, they will test you for both COVID and influenza.

 

[mike2810]

Yep. Also, if you go to the hospital with signs of respiratory illness, they will test you for both COVID and influenza.

Yep. your linked article is misleading.

 

[noonereal]

Hospitals say the expected army of flu-sickened patients never materialized

I never considered flu would be of any consequence nor did anyone educated.

We saw no flu in the southern hemisphere this summer and all educated parts of teh country masked, distanced and washed.

Why on earth would anyone think a flu would be of consequence?

and don't give me that out of context "Fucci said" trash.

 

[noonereal]

Maybe COVID attacks other viruses? Might be something science wants to research.

seriously?

 

[grip]

seriously?

Uh, yeah.

Uhhhh... no. That's not how it works.

It's that social distancing, masks, cleaning, school closures, travel limits and other methods used to keep COVID in check also reduced influenza transmission, especially among seniors.

Also, the number of people getting flu vaccines jumped 46% among adults. It's the highest number of flu vaccines ever given during flu season.

Flu numbers are down as COVID-19 cases surge in the U.S.

The CDC reports a record number of flu vaccines have been distributed across the U.S. this season.

www.cbsnews.com

There are viruses known as virophages, viruses that specialize in infecting other viruses. Virophages were first discovered infecting giant viruses in 2008.

Though, I do agree that the preventative measures taking place for covid have had the biggest impact on the flu this year.

 

[VySky]

Any idiot knows that keeping a distance from other people during flu season, wearing a mask in public, using hand sanitizer, etc. will lower the cases of influenza like any other disease. Why is that so hard for some to understand?

Seems the experts last year who predicted the opposite disagree.

 

[Visbek]

Seems the experts last year who predicted the opposite disagree.

Yaay, more misleading bullshit

What Fauci actually said in August 2020 was: "If we do not do the things in a uniform way ... as we get into the winter and fall, with the likelihood we'd have a convergence, we'd have a convergence of two respiratory diseases. We can have a very difficult time."

Redfield also worried that *cough* IF Americans did not properly distance, wear masks, avoid unnecessary travel and so on, then the flu and COVID combined could cause lots of problems: "It’s dependent on how the American people choose to respond. It’s really the worst of times or the best of times, depending on the American public. I’m optimistic." The part he got wrong was his optimism, not fears of a convergence of COVID and influenza.

So, no. No one was saying "we're all doomed!" They were pointing out a possible scenario, that was thwarted by high vaccination rates, social distancing, masks, cleaning, reduced travel, and protections specifically oriented towards older people.

 

[screenwriter]

While it is possible for a person to have the flu and Covid19 at the same time. Covid tests (swab) will not show positive for flu. Antibody tests are not used to diagnose if a person has Covid-19. It is used to determine the type of coronavirus a person has.
Fact check: A swab test is highly unlikely to misdiagnose flu or common cold as COVID-19 | Reuters

Your linked article is misleading.

We use a "quad" test. In one test system we simultaneously test for covid Flu A Flu B and RSV.

 

[ataraxia]

And yes, ZeroHedge is total garbage. Even when they write something factual, they manage to screw it up. If you don't want to hear people attacking your sources, then get better sources.

But... but CNN!...NYT! Right?

 

[mike2810]

We use a "quad" test. In one test system we simultaneously test for covid Flu A Flu B and RSV.

For Use Under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Only

You mean this one?
The Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2/Flu/RSV test is a rapid, multiplexed real-time RT-PCR test intended for the simultaneous qualitative detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2, influenza A, influenza B, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) viral RNA in either nasopharyngeal swab, nasal swab or nasal wash/ aspirate specimens collected from individuals suspected of respiratory viral infection consistent with COVID-19 by their healthcare provider. 1 Clinical signs and symptoms of respiratory viral infection due to SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and RSV can be similar.

download (fda.gov)

 

[screenwriter]

For Use Under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Only

You mean this one?
The Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2/Flu/RSV test is a rapid, multiplexed real-time RT-PCR test intended for the simultaneous qualitative detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2, influenza A, influenza B, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) viral RNA in either nasopharyngeal swab, nasal swab or nasal wash/ aspirate specimens collected from individuals suspected of respiratory viral infection consistent with COVID-19 by their healthcare provider. 1 Clinical signs and symptoms of respiratory viral infection due to SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and RSV can be similar.

download (fda.gov)

All SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests were approved and are permitted as Emergency Use Only. In the second sentence "can be" is the operative phrase. Covid 19, as a pathology, has proven just how varied the "same" disease can be as it infects different people. In many people it presents as a vascular disease, not respiratory.

 

[jaeger19]

Or as has been suspected for some time, Covid cases are being over counted

Um no..there is no way to extrapolate that from flu being less prevalent this year.

 

[Carleen]

Interesting.

Spin away at will

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Despite all those warnings from Dr. Anthony Fauci about COVID-19 and the flu joining forces in 2020 and 2021 to create some kind of super-deadly double-whammy viral pandemic, it's no longer a secret at this point that worries about a super-charged flu season simply never came to pass. We've reported on the phenomenon of falling flu cases before,

February is usually the peak of flu season, when doctors' offices and hospitals are packed with patients. But that's not the case this year. Instead, the flu has virtually disappeared from the US, with reports coming in at far lower levels than the world has seen in decades. Some areas, like San Diego, have seen such low numbers, health authorities have demanded audits of COVID-positive patients to see whether some might have been misdiagnosed.

According to the CDC, the cumulative positive influenza test rate from late September into the week of December 19th was just 0.2%, compared to 8.7% from a year before.

Hospitals say the expected army of flu-sickened patients never materialized, and that nationally "this is the lowest flu season we’ve had on record," according to a surveillance system that is about 25 years old.

One source from Maine Medical Center in Portland, the state's largest hospital, said "I have seen zero documented flu cases this winter," said Dr. Nate Mick, the head of the emergency department.

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Wearing masks seems to be the mystery.

 

[Mongidig]

These Q people have yet to be right regarding C19 conspiracy theories. Remember "Mask face"? Whatever happened to that one. No wonder a narcissistic sociopathic conman was able to brainwash these vulnerable turds.