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Sr writer, infectious diseases @statnews. 2020 Polk Award winner. Nieman '11. Conspiracy theory free zone; I block rude, racist. She/her #Covid #Ebola #flu 🇨🇦

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    1. Helen Branswell‏Verified account @HelenBranswell 28 Sep 2021

      1. As we look to the coming winter in the Northern Hemisphere, 2 big Qs loom. What's going to happen with Covid? & Will #flu return in a significant way this winter? @WHO's biweekly flu update suggests transmission remains at low levels globally. All data below are from @WHO.pic.twitter.com/vkcAJ3795I

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    2. Helen Branswell‏Verified account @HelenBranswell 28 Sep 2021

      2. There are smatterings of #flu here and there around the globe. Some flu B in the Caribbean & Central America. Some flu A in parts of Africa and Asia.pic.twitter.com/92snUeKm4v

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    3. Helen Branswell‏Verified account @HelenBranswell 28 Sep 2021

      3. How much #flu is out there? Of nearly 276K flu tests run in 88 countries from 8/30-9/12, 1,884 were positive for flu — 0.68%. During the same 2-week period in 2019 (ie before Covid) 7.4% of tests globally were positive for influenza. In 2020, it was 0.04%, ie almost none.pic.twitter.com/C4JKtkKHHK

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    4. Helen Branswell‏Verified account @HelenBranswell 28 Sep 2021

      4. Aside: Another Q about #flu is whether a family of flu B viruses, B/Yamagata, was driven extinct during the pandemic. Two B/Yam viruses were reported in this @WHO report but as @trvrb would say, let's see if sequences get logged into the databases. TBD. https://www.statnews.com/2021/06/02/pandemic-upside-flu-virus-became-less-diverse-simplifying-task-of-making-flu-shots/ …pic.twitter.com/pMhOragFeS

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      Helen Branswell‏Verified account @HelenBranswell 28 Sep 2021

      5. I wanted to see how 0.68% test positivity compared to the rest of the pandemic. The main graph is Aug 2019 (to the left is the 2019-2020 flu season; very active) through Sept 2021. Flu vanished in April 2020. The inset is then on. We're still not back to April 2020 flu levels.pic.twitter.com/GLxXzXkUUR

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        2. Helen Branswell‏Verified account @HelenBranswell 28 Sep 2021

          6. We're still not back to April 2020 #flu levels, but the percentage of positive tests is slowly rising. A caveat I don't know how to adjust for: The denominator varies per 2-wk period. Mostly >100K, sometimes >200K tests, a few times <100K.pic.twitter.com/yuGqG3YOp5

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        3. Helen Branswell‏Verified account @HelenBranswell 28 Sep 2021

          7. Another caveat: Pre-Covid, most #flu tests were likely ordered when someone had #flu-like symptoms. In the pandemic, I would imagine a lot of these are tests that look for Covid or flu or other respiratory pathogens. I don't know what that does to the comparability of data.

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        4. Helen Branswell‏Verified account @HelenBranswell 28 Sep 2021

          8. But any way you slice it, there's been a lot of testing for #flu during the pandemic & not much flu found. It appears to be inching (millimetering?) upwards, but it is still well below what it would normally be at this time of year. -30-pic.twitter.com/kYufa4QDLC

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