"To date this season, 41 influenza detections have been reported (Figure 2), which is significantly lower than the past six seasons where an average of 3,055 influenza detections were reported between weeks 35-49."
Twenty seven of the influenza detections reported to date this season are known to be associated with recent live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) receipt and do not represent community circulation of seasonal influenza viruses.
From what I see here, it looks like there's only 7 flu cases (4 Influenza A, 1 H1N1, 2 Influenza B) on 16396 tests (0.04% positivity rate) in Canada the week of Nov 29 to Dec 5, 2020 (the latest data we have on file). Week "49".
Meanwhile in Ontario alone we have discovered 12,887 new cases of COVID-19 on 393,145 tests within the last week. For a 3.28% test positivity rate.
Why so much COVID but flu is almost dead?
It's almost as if they check everyone's sample who gets tested for COVID for influenza as well and they put down influenza cases as COVID.
Or, the covid test is so imprecise is is counting flu as covid.
The flu count is from people who got a false negative on the COVID test but got a proper flu test and tested positive for the flu.
So the covid test could actually be picking up flu, coronavirusus, and other viruses. There may not even be a "new coronavirus." Or maybe there is and the tests are just so bad they are picking up all sorts of viruses and false positives and calling them all covid.
I wonder if it has something to do with the PCR testing systems. We know that they crank up the amplification cycles to well beyond being useful. So they run the samples through this test and what ever is there gets shredded and it’s bits end up resembling Covid? I’m just spitballing, hopefully someone knows more and can run with this idea.
"To date this season, 41 influenza detections have been reported (Figure 2), which is significantly lower than the past six seasons where an average of 3,055 influenza detections were reported between weeks 35-49."
This particular sentence blows my mind:
From what I see here, it looks like there's only 7 flu cases (4 Influenza A, 1 H1N1, 2 Influenza B) on 16396 tests (0.04% positivity rate) in Canada the week of Nov 29 to Dec 5, 2020 (the latest data we have on file). Week "49".
Meanwhile in Ontario alone we have discovered 12,887 new cases of COVID-19 on 393,145 tests within the last week. For a 3.28% test positivity rate.
Why so much COVID but flu is almost dead?
It's almost as if they check everyone's sample who gets tested for COVID for influenza as well and they put down influenza cases as COVID.
Or, the covid test is so imprecise is is counting flu as covid.
The flu count is from people who got a false negative on the COVID test but got a proper flu test and tested positive for the flu.
So the covid test could actually be picking up flu, coronavirusus, and other viruses. There may not even be a "new coronavirus." Or maybe there is and the tests are just so bad they are picking up all sorts of viruses and false positives and calling them all covid.
I wonder if it has something to do with the PCR testing systems. We know that they crank up the amplification cycles to well beyond being useful. So they run the samples through this test and what ever is there gets shredded and it’s bits end up resembling Covid? I’m just spitballing, hopefully someone knows more and can run with this idea.
My meager understanding is the pcr test is supposed to look for 2 or 3 specific strands of dna.
Maybe those strands are present in lots of viruses.
Just asking that question makes you a racist. "Interpret Data"? Who do you think we are? Mega Hitler?