Thanks to masks, social distancing and other measures adopted since March, far fewer people in the U.S. are getting infected with the flu compared to previous years.
President’s declaration of a state of national emergency
) coincided with the decline of the usual winter influenza season. By comparing the speed at which the 2020 flu seasons “ended” compared with other years, the authors could get an idea about how NPIs cut off flu transmission. Whereas most flu seasons tail off gradually, the 2020 season stopped precipitously.
The upshot of these analyses is that the NPIs adopted to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 are almost certainly also responsible for drastic reductions in the transmission of influenza. And since they are reducing influenza transmission, they are probably reducing Covid-19 transmission as well. NPIs work.
The study also highlights data that will be of interest to people following the Covid-19 pandemic who might like to compare it with flu. The study used two different data sets. Data from the US are from hundreds of diagnostic laboratories that report to either the
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