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So far, my staff has been affected more by seasonal flu than COVID-19, with every person missing time. For comparison's sake here are the figures for seasonal flu from the CDC as of today. Bear in mind this is for the US only:
CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 38 million flu illnesses, 390,000 hospitalizations and 23,000 deaths from flu.
I was thinking about this and I think for some reason people testing positive for flu are not being tested for covid. I am not sure about it but it seems like people are assuming that having the flu somehow prevents them from also having covid at the same time. My point is that if this ends up looking like an extremely bad "flu" season and especially earlier in the year, how many of the people that have died of pneumonia related to the flu also had covid as well?
Basically, are we sure all of those 23,000 flu deaths this year were only the flu and not also a covid infection at the same time?