CORONAVIRUSUK: Health Authorities Announce Not a Single Case of Flu Detected This Year

Summit News ^ | 2-23-2021 | Paul Joseph Watson

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This claim is misleading and the conclusions drawn from it are false. Covid deaths are not mislabeled flu deaths to any significant degree.

What I have seen since November, is that a lot of conservative news sources are crossing over in to using current conspiracy spreading techniques. Take a sensational story, run with it, drop it it for a while, then rewrite it and run it again a few times. The fact the original story was false gets forgotten. Remember the Scytl servers in Germany? I do. This story is following that pattern.

The flu kills between 10,000 to 30,000 in the U.K (2013 to 2018) and 10,000 to 60,000 in the U.S annually (since 2010). In 2020 Covid killed 73,500 in the U.K. and 350,000 in the U.S. In the first two months of this year, Covid has killed over 150,000 in the U.S., at lteast twice as many who die annually from the flu. If Covid is really misidentified flu as Knut Wittkowski says, then please explain how the flu is killing several times as many people than normal in so many countries with a virus whose genome is clearly is not any flu virus.

This type of claim started when Zerohedge published a article about the U.S. flu season last December December, that has since been archived, and now gets a 404 error. Which I find interesting, since Zerohedge doesn't make it clear what subscription gets access to the archive.

What that article did was misrepresent the CDC's aggregation of weekly flu data and ignore that there is yearly variation of the flu. Looking at the CDC's ILI Map (Influenza Like Illness), the November to February periods of 2008/2009, 2011/2012 were November to February periods that had low flu seasons compared to other years. The total number of flu cases is a statistical estimate based of all the data. Using medical testing alone badly under represents all flu cases.

This article is misrepresenting the UK flu data in the exact same way. Just like the CDC, The U.K. has its own weekly reporting on flu and Covid cases, Official Statistics National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports . The latest report, National flu and COVID-19 surveillance report: 18 February 2021 (week 7) (government agencies everywhere love long titles), does show the actual lab testing is low, however the evidence of flu cases is more than just lab tests when reading through these reports.