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What's Worse Than a Pandemic? A Twindemic
We used to think the seasonal flu was no big deal. After Covid, that just looks silly.
This again?
Source: Bloomberg
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On the list of things to worry about in the age of SARS-CoV-2, boring, old winter flu probably doesn’t rank highly. Especially not in the middle of a summer heat wave. And yet it should.
Humanity has grown so accustomed to annual waves of influenza that it was the baseline comparison when Covid first arrived. (It’ll be just another flu, we said.) The implication was that levels of influenza sickness, hospitalization and death were acceptable, even inevitable.