Just the flu is the new WMDs in Iraq. Spread by the press and the state, taking turns this time. May end up killing even more people.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1242637149012402179 …
time and exponential growth. we’re still just getting started in NY... the only reason to mention the flu is to encourage the flu shot to decrease our hospital burden and also to highlight that COVID is an order of magnitude worse.. so we could prepare 
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order of magnitude on what metric? fatality rate is heavily skewed to lack of testing (though, still probably more fatal than flu). not to minimize COVID, but flu is also still raging quite late to its usual cycle so both will continue to expand.
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China shutting down 800m people? Italy and now spain and NY imploding? I treat flu every year and I’ve never been this terrified when I walk into each patient room.
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