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pdurrant · 05-25-2021, 03:14 PM

One interesting thing that's happened in the USA is that infections and deaths with influenza for the 2020/2021 influenza season are way down.

This is, I suspect, because the precautions taken to reduce the incidence of COVID (with an R0 about 3) worked even better against seasonal influenza, which has an R0 or about 1.3 (range 0.9-2.0).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...vid-pandemic1/

The same thing's happened in the UK and elsewhere.

05-25-2021, 03:14 PM	#369
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 74,081 Karma: 315558332 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	One interesting thing that's happened in the USA is that infections and deaths with influenza for the 2020/2021 influenza season are way down. This is, I suspect, because the precautions taken to reduce the incidence of COVID (with an R0 about 3) worked even better against seasonal influenza, which has an R0 or about 1.3 (range 0.9-2.0). https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...vid-pandemic1/ The same thing's happened in the UK and elsewhere.