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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
About That Mysterious Decline in Flu Cases...
2021-02-26
[Red State] What exactly are we to make of the stunning decline in influenza cases we’re seeing this season?

Phil Kerpen has been compiling the CDC’s data, and remarkable doesn’t even begin to describe it.

By the sixth week of last year, around 32% of the roughly 57,000 flu tests reported to the CDC had come back positive. And these numbers are in line with those from the previous four years as well:

  • In 2019, around 40,000 influenza tests were reported by week six, with roughly 26% positive.

  • From 2016 thru 2020, an average of around 44,000 influenza tests had been reported by week six, roughly 25% of which were positive.

    Yet, by the sixth week of 2021, CDC figures show that only 17 of the over 40,800 reported flu tests reported to the CDC this year were positive, which comes to a minuscule .04%!

    If these numbers are to be believed, influenza cases have declined by a factor of over 600 this year compared to the previous five-year average.

    For all intents and purposes, the flu appears to have vanished.
    • Posted by:Besoeker

    #11  I usually get 2 - 4 upper respiratory infections every year, with at least one of them at flu level of severity, in spite of a flu shot.

    Since a year age, not even a sniffle.
    Posted by: KBK   2021-02-26 17:56  

    #10  Someone was explaining how the decline in flu cases was due to masks and social distancing.

    I said, "So why doesn't that work on COVID?"

    I guess it was a rhetorical question.
    Posted by: Bobby   2021-02-26 15:41  

    #9  Better hygiene due to COVID?
    Posted by: Clem   2021-02-26 13:41  

    #8  No mystery. They are all being counted as COVID.

    As are the drug overdoses and drive-by shootings, I'd presume.
    Posted by: Mullah Richard   2021-02-26 11:58  

    #7  No mystery. They are all being counted as COVID.
    Posted by: Angstrom   2021-02-26 10:41  

    #6  BINGQ, #2 P2k.
    Posted by: Barbara   2021-02-26 10:10  

    #5  With every one taking some form of added precautions. I could understand some legitiment reduction in the number of cases.

    But under 20, in population of 342 million.
    There is just No Way.
    Posted by: NN2N1   2021-02-26 08:21  

    #4  I suppose it is possible that the flu was 'crowded out' by COVID.

    But I'll put my money on influenced by the money.
    Posted by: Bobby   2021-02-26 08:21  

    #3  Same thing happened in Australia during their winter. Well known fact, not widely reported.
    Posted by: Spoter B   2021-02-26 06:48  

    #2  Get paid reporting death due to Covid, get no pay reporting death due to flu. Guess what all the 'flu' deaths are reported as this year. It's all corrupt from top to bottom.
    Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-02-26 06:17  

    #1  Herd immunity?
    Posted by: Kojo Tojo5311   2021-02-26 03:56  

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