[Terry L Smith]

No matter the world virus nimbers, the percentage has worked out to 4%!!!!!

[Libloather]

770,000 [570,000−1,100,000] people died of HIV-related illnesses worldwide in 2018. https://www.who.int/gho/hiv/epidemic_status/deaths/en/

[wastoute]

“It’s no worse than car crashes!” Every car crash in the country for a year is not happening in NYC right now but it’s close, for the people who are dealing with it.

[nonsporting]

If if isn’t a flu virus, then what is the cause?

[SMARTY]

That’s the problem with dishonesty. Your word and YOU, are worthless forever.

Got that, Hillary?

[microgeek42]

I read the article.

Flu is diagnosed clinically. If you have the symptoms, you have the flu.

The tests are going to return false negatives due to many factors, the main one being you have to know the exact sequence of the pathogen you are looking for, which is hard when a) things change (mutate), and b) there are many varieties that have not yet been characterized. “Flu” is a whole cachet of different viruses.

What I got from this article is not that the CDC is lying about the spread or incidence of the disease. (If you look at CDC’s flu stats they clearly say incidence of “influenza like illnesses” - ILI’s).

What I got is that our testing could be vastly improved. This is not a trivial task.

We can’t rely just on positive tests to control infections.