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Yeah, there's about 400,000 fewer potential victims.

The reduction in US population is 400,000/327 million, on any percentage basis not something that can possibly impact the number of people who contracted the flu.

The reduction in flu this year is attributed to more folks getting the vaccine (it wasn't a huge bump), the vaccine being more effective, and distancing, maybe the latter is the big factor.

Flu transmission is likely very similar to COVID transmission and enough people are avoiding large gatherings to cut flu transmission.

To assert that fewer people get the flu now because 400,000 died is pandering of course, silliness of the first order.

And there is no one here susceptible to that level of pandering anyway.

The flu season is dramatically low, and that's a good thing.  We can see 50,000 deaths due to flu in a season, rough average, usually older folks.  That doesn't offset 400,000 of course, it's just a comment that at least one bad thing is less bad than usual.

I wonder at times how many would have died of COVID if we let the scientists manage things entirely.  I don't know of course, but it's probably not much less than what happened.  We probably would not have put recovering COVID patients in nursing homes.

With federal leadership effectively nonexistent over the last year, it's tough to say.  My thought would be clearer goals and plans so it's not just everyone somewhat randomly coming up with their own plans.  Schools especially have been all over the place.  

With federal leadership effectively nonexistent over the last year, it's tough to say.  My thought would be clearer goals and plans so it's not just everyone somewhat randomly coming up with their own plans.  Schools especially have been all over the place. 

Except, well...

• Given their congregate nature and resident population served (e.g., older adults often with underlying chronic medical conditions), nursing home populations are at high risk of being affected by respiratory pathogens like COVID-19 and other pathogens, including multidrug-resistant organisms (e.g., Carbapenemase-producing organisms, Candida auris ). As demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a strong infection prevention and control (IPC) program is critical to protect both residents and healthcar…

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• Published: Feb 11, 2020

With federal leadership effectively nonexistent over the last year, it's tough to say.  My thought would be clearer goals and plans so it's not just everyone somewhat randomly coming up with their own plans.  Schools especially have been all over the place. 

This is a state matter and there has been all the federal leadership legally possible

What federal leadership changes has the new President instituted 

Biden's new message is to wear masks for 100 days

I'm quite sure this will have a great effect

Biden's new message is to wear masks for 100 days

I'm quite sure this will have a great effect

We have been told to wear a mask for months now of course.  It's common where I live.  My main complaint about Trump in this field was how his utterances would dominate the news cycle and submerged real advice that was also provided.  But without that, I think the virus would largely have run its course about the same.

One can look at the European experience and see how the virus takes off even if countries are centrally controlled and "listening  to scientists".