Flu Disappearance
Flu, Interrupted
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I’ve long been perplexed by the alleged disappearance of influenza. For readers who aren’t aware, positive flu tests abruptly went away at the end of the 2019-2020 season. The vanishing act was observed in most (but not all) of the 127 countries that participate in the WHO
Setting the Stage for Flu’s Disappearing Act
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In my first post on the disappearance of flu, I asserted: Influenza was largely absent from surveillance reporting and detection for over a year due to Human Interference (HI), not Viral Interference (VI) or non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) Health agencies took actions and issued orders and guidance that account for th…