Re:Prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2
by chasd00 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:25PM
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i have no idea how trustworthy this source is but it looks like the flu/cold isn't handling covid19 protections and procedures very well.
"South Africa also has reported startling declines, with doctors saying there haven't been a sufficient number of flu cases to even report that the seasonal epidemic happened. And in Australia, the country's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System recorded only 85 new laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza in the last two weeks of June—a stark difference from the 22,047 confirmed cases recorded during the same time last year."
"South Africa also has reported startling declines, with doctors saying there haven't been a sufficient number of flu cases to even report that the seasonal epidemic happened. And in Australia, the country's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System recorded only 85 new laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza in the last two weeks of June—a stark difference from the 22,047 confirmed cases recorded during the same time last year."
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/07/24/coronavir...