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The overall rate of flu-like illnesses has fallen to essentially zero:

https://healthweather.us/?mode=Atypical

The time series chart allows you to compare Kinsa’s observations of the influenza-like illness level in the U.S., in orange and red, against where we’d expect them to be, in blue, and see how that relationship has changed over the past few weeks

Data is current as of: April 17, 2020

Maybe we're inadvertently wiping out whole strains of flu and colds during the lockdown.

Patrick says

The overall rate of flu-like illnesses has fallen to essentially zero:

https://healthweather.us/?mode=Atypical

The time series chart allows you to compare Kinsa’s observations of the influenza-like illness level in the U.S., in orange and red, against where we’d expect them to be, in blue, and see how that relationship has changed over the past few weeks

Data is current as of: April 17, 2020

Maybe we're inadvertently wiping out whole strains of flu and colds during the lockdown.

Or sars-cov2 proves to be superior with its higher R0 but likely lesser lethality once all asymptomatic cases are counted, and it's severely taking down the flu. It's widely known that microbes mostly compete against each other while only few have symbiotic relationships. And many cases that were the flu are now "presumed" Covid-19 to stoke the media frenzy and orange!man!bad! Remember they don't need proof just a "hunch" and the flu has very very similar manifestations.

Patrick says

The overall rate of flu-like illnesses has fallen to essentially zero:

I took a screen shot of this while Dr Bitchx was talking yesterday.


These are the historical flu seasons for the last decade.
Looking at the Red represented in the 2019 - 2020 flu season.
Those peaks are Flus, the first one was Influenza B, then the next wave was Influenza A, followed by the CV19 spike and now the cases have fallen off the charts.
But notice the CV19 spike didn't not have the duration or intensity of the two Influenza outbreaks.