Warrigal
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- Sydney, Australia
Australia reported the same phenomenon of low flu cases last Winter (NH Summer). I can assure you that reporting and record keeping over here is not inept. Covid vaccine is in short supply over here and the vaccination roll out has stalled. So far only about 4% of the population has received even the first jab. Under 50s are going to have to wait until close to Christmas. I am among the privileged and have an appointment for early May for my first jab of AstraZeneca.There was very little flu this season probably because a good bit of it was being classified as covid due to faulty test kits and the incentive/pressure to enter the covid fray.. The CDC was never very adept at counting flu cases accurately and revised its directives to allow influenze to be classified as covid. More regular flu didn't just go away.
We are looking at the swift rollout of vaccine in US with astonishment and envy. Thanks to strict lockdowns and quarantine practices we have been able to control community transmissions but it has come are great economic cost.
Our neighbours to the north in PNG are in much worse shape with a contagion spreading throughout the country, poorly developed public health systems and hardly any vaccine available to protect the population. I'm sure they would like to have the First World problem of having to decide whether vaccines and masks are an affront to individual freedom.
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