Phil Kerpen
@kerpen
Replying to @kerpen
United States Influenza testing, MMWR week 6.

CDC flu view. https://cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

Five-year average: 12,066 cases; 25.38% positive
Last year: 18,193; 31.96%
This year: 17; 0.04% //

Aaron Ginn
@aginnt
On one hand, COVID continues to spread because of COVID law disobedience.

On the other, flu disappears because NPI compliance is so high.

🙄
Not a single case of flu detected in England this year
independent.co.uk //

It appears that the window for detecting the flu using the standard PCR-type test is incredibly small.

Hence, if the huge influx of COVID-19 tests labs have been dealing with caused any kind of delay in how quickly influenza tests were processed, that by itself could easily explain why basically all of the latter are coming back negative. //

All the more so given that, for some reason, the COVID-19 PCR tests appear to be plagued with the opposite problem of yielding positive results long after the infection has passed.