Are we understanding what happened yet? The media are assisting in the climb-down, Trumpism -they
believe, is over.
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believe, is over.
Quote:Lockdowns and new health habits help number of flu sufferers fall to 130-year low
Out of 3.9 million patients at 385 GP practices across England last week, only 35 had the flu.
It's believed measures designed to stop COVID-19 are also quashing the flu.
'The number of people suffering from the flu in England has plunged by more than 95% to levels
not seen for 130 years.
Data experts at the Royal College of General Practices (RCGP) said that in the third week of
January - usually a peak time for the flu - the number of flu-like illnesses reported to doctors was
0.9 per 100,000 people compared with a five-year average of 27.
It is believed that measures designed to tame the COVID-19 pandemic - as well as increased
publicity about the importance of having the flu vaccine this year - are quashing influenza and
many other respiratory diseases.
Out of 3.9 million patients at 385 GP practices in England monitored by the RCGP, only 35 had
the flu last week.
And The Sunday Times reports that in the second week of January, the flu positivity rate - a standard
measurement of flu in the community - was 0%. Not one of the 1,894 samples tested positive.
Simon de Lusignan, a professor of primary care and clinical informatics, and director of the RCGP's
research and surveillance centre, told Sky News he believed the combination of travel bans, social
distancing and hand-washing had all had a "really positive effect on the normal winter transmissions".
He added: "In our 'old way' of living, much more would have been passed around."...'
Quote:'...CDC researchers also put the drop down to school closures, bans on mass gatherings and stay-at-homeSKY News:
orders originally to prevent coronavirus, but which also helped stop community spread of the flu.
"The global decline in influenza virus circulation appears to be real and concurrent with the COVID-19
pandemic and its associated community mitigation measures," a CDC statement said...'
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Quote:Covid-19: Isle of Man ends second lockdownBBC:
'Pubs, cafes and high streets are all re-open on the island. Covid social distancing rules on the Isle of Man have been
scrapped by the government following a 25-day lockdown.
Restrictions were lifted at 00:01 GMT after the island recorded 20 days without an unexplained community case...'
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