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false

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double seconded

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>Retard here, If this is true then what is the best way to acquire knowledge?
if you know a lot of stuff is wrong then that means that the opposite stuff is right

https://weather.com/health/cold-flu/news/2021-01-13-flu-cases-coronavirus

During the second week in January, 23 people tested positive for the flu in the United States.

More than 14,657 tested positive for the flu during the same time last year, before the coronavirus pandemic took hold.

“It’s crazy,” Lynnette Brammer, who leads the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Domestic Influenza Surveillance team, told The Washington Post. “This is my 30th flu season. I never would have expected to see flu activity this low.”

For the week ending January 16, the CDC reported low or minimal flu activity in almost every state and territory.

Last year, flu activity was high in 44 states that week, plus Puerto Rico and New York City. Only one state, New Hampshire, had minimal flu activity.

Doctors and health experts say the large number of people who got flu vaccines leading into this year's flu season, combined with social distancing and other measures designed to help slow the spread of COVID-19, are likely contributors for the steep drop.

A record number of flu vaccines were distributed before and during the current flu season, according to the CDC.

But the experts warn that flu cases could surge when more people return to normal activities. So could other endemic viruses - those that have circulated for years - like norovirus and RSV.

“It’s a real possibility that we’re going to see increased outbreaks of the endemic infections,” Ben Lopman, an epidemiologist in Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, told the Post. “If people haven’t gotten infected this year, because of actions taken to prevent COVID-19, there’s a real risk of bigger outbreaks when we go back to normal.”