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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Nah - I've though this through again and I do know that in the real world, all sorts of viruses circulate. It would thus seem to me that it's all going on at the same time and flu numbers will be depressed by the people getting Covid.
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Having COVID wouldn't protect you from getting the flu unfortunately. It would be a bad day at the office if you got both at the same time though.
The measures taken in the past such as social distancing, masks, handwashing and lockdowns would reduce flu levels as a handy side effect though. I suppose if you isolate due to COVID, you are less likely to get flu but that's only a couple of weeks out of circulation.
What we really don't want is lots of people getting the flu while lots of people have COVID. That would clog things up rapidly in hospitals. The double whammy of COVID and flu vaccines is very helpful here.