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Stephen Low's avatar

Could it be that flu infection dampens a covid infection wave. Like last year it seems when Flu peaks greater than covid infection the Covid wave increase is terminated at the decline commences. Could it be that flu takes out of the population people (whose behaviour makes then susceptible to respiratory infection ) who would have gone onto contracting covid and infecting others; from their flu sick bed they can't catch covid and infect others. Maybe its the difference in the infection to symptom timespan between flu and covid that is the factor, and why covid waves in winter/flu season are dampened more than the covid waves in summer when flu is not so prevalent. Also flu symptoms make take potential asymptomatic covid infectors out of the population which would not happen in a covid wave outside of the flu season?

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Christina Pagel's avatar

Great summary as usual!

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