samedi 19 septembre 2020

Will the coming influenza season produce few deaths?

Currently, the forthcoming flu season is about to start and everywhere there are messages to get your flu vaccine to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed with flu on top of Covid-19 cases. Seems reasonable on its face.

But influenza has a significantly lower R0 than Covid-19 and it is subject to most of the same non pharmaceutical intervention reduction as Covid-19 so I don't see it being a significant factor in hospital loads until a Covid-19 vaccine is widely in use which is not going to occur in this flu season.

What am I missing?


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