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Re:Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic by opencl on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:42PM (#26984836)
In this 2018 paper[1] transmission from surfaces accounted for ~4% of flu infections. So it probably made very little impact.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121424/

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Re:Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic by yosito on Thursday April 29, 2021 @03:10PM (#26985242)
Thanks! This is good information. I would imagine that ~4% less flu infections at the start of a flu season would be enough to slow down the season a bit, in theory, but not to the point flu has been slowed down now.
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