Louis Gossett Jr
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A normal seasonal influenza has an R0 close to one, the ability to halt transmission is pretty high. The covid-19 mitigation measures could easily drop the numbers to almost zero. Even just the simple change in attitude of I’m sick I stay home from work instead of exposing everyone in my office. You could make the argument that because of the system being overwhelmed influenza cases were being missed but in a hospital setting all the symptoms associated were checked with a covid and flu test so deaths were probably more accurate. The case count overall is usually a weird mathematical model anyways so the confidence interval on that number is high, but the take away is the mitigation strategies work, and work better for flu.