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Sorry. Didn't realize you meant daily infection rate.

Read your articles.

Article 1 is written by some right wing hack with an agenda.
No doctor would intentionally mis-report the flu as covid. Period. Not for any reason.

When a patient tests + for both covid and influenza both are reported.
It isn't an either or proposition
Even if it was, he doesn't understand how billing for doctors go - way too long and complicated to try to explain here


Article 2:
Pull it up and look at the maps for the past 5 years - they are nearly the same
Each flu season is unique.
Some start mid/late September others mid November.
Some have high infection rates others lower infection rates
Most peak in January, others not until March.


Article 3:
Not sure what your point is in posting it.
There is one anecdotal story of a guy in early March who tested negative for the flu and couldn't get a covid test which isn't surprising given the timeframe.
The doctor told him he had a "bug" - that term is used colloquially to refer to bacterial and viruses. So technically the doctor was correct though correct in the way you ask me where you live and I say the Untied States. Technically that is correct, you do but it is far from being precise.

Every patient who presents with a similar condition is tested for both covid and influenza
The most reasonable explanation? It is likely a combination of a late onset flu season, fewer cases because people are being more diligent about hand washing and they are wearing masks in public. I would also guess that people with mild cases of the flu are reluctant to go to their doctor's office so in the past more people with mild disease would go in and get tested/diagnosed with the flu while this year they are just staying home unless it gets bad.

I guess facts get in the way of your thinking. Cases are way up. Hospitalizations are way up. The death count is rising.

And you call that liberal BS? You live in a world where facts don't matter and all you can do to deny them is blaming people who present them. Sad. Murica!

... but but but... her 100k-person county had an infection rate over a specific 24-hour period that was way low.... so clearly this international pandemic is no big deal because data.

Having great results currently in your neighborhood is a wonderful thing. I'm happy the risk is low for her "at this particular point in time".

But anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that is most likely a very temporary situation.

To me there is no politics involved in any of this except for those trying to deny the science in the name of politics. Infectious disease doctors do not hold political office. Virologists are not political. The fact that hospital admissions and the death count are on the rise isn't political.

Sadly I feel as we see this virus rise in rural areas, in states not before heavily infected and recurring in areas where it was once gotten somewhat under control does not bode well for those trying to use the "my neighborhood" analogy. This moment is a slice in time. And this moment in time isn't doing very well as cases are on the rise in Georgia.

'Things are not going well for Georgia': COVID-19 numbers back on the rise after brief slump

https://www.wjcl.com/article/things-are-...slump/34424167#

Its been this low in my county for the last 2 months. If it goes up it goes up. But for a while now we've been in good shape.