No Ezra, you aren't reading that right. Flu is not diagnosed, it is inferred from other pathologies. Flu deaths are estimates based on things like pneumonia, dehydration etc.
They disappeared because now the pneumonia cases were all called as Covid-19
No Ezra, you aren't reading that right. Flu is not diagnosed, it is inferred from other pathologies. Flu deaths are estimates based on things like pneumonia, dehydration etc.
They disappeared because now the pneumonia cases were all called as Covid-19
Here's various papers discussion the models used
in the US
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19797736/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19453440/
and Canada
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0080481