More than a year after the pandemic started, Covid-19 is still ravaging parts of the world, but now scientists are warning that another virus could be a serious threat in the coming months: influenza.
This season, the flu virtually disappeared, with less than 2,000 lab-confirmed cases in the United States to date, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a typical flu season, the U.S. could see more than 200,000 lab-confirmed cases by this time of year, a tiny fraction of the true number of cases, estimated to range from 9 million to 45 million annually.
Scientists and public health experts say this year, Covid-19 mitigation measures, like social distancing and masking, most likely stopped flu transmission.
But according to scientists like Dr. Andy Pekosz, a professor of microbiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a year without much flu could lead to a year with a whole lot of flu.
"We've gone over a year without a significant portion of the population getting infected with flu and getting immunity because of that," Pekosz said. "That could mean that the susceptible people in the population to flu are going to be increasing."
When someone gets the flu, they usually develop some immunity to the virus. That's why young children and babies are often the most susceptible to getting infected, because their immune system hasn’t seen the virus yet. But since there was such little influenza circulating this year, the number of people without any prior immunity could double.
"With low level population immunity, that could bring about more cases," said Scott Hensley, a microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. "We could see more pediatric deaths and, concurrent with that, a rise in cases within the whole community. That's because overall population immunity is predicted to be low."
Scientists say another aspect of this unusual flu season is that there doesn’t appear to be many flu strains circulating.
"It's interesting,” Hensley said. "Typically, there's a lot of genetic diversity of these viruses."
It's unclear whether there are actually fewer strains circulating, or if there has just been limited sampling of the virus because there have been so few cases, meaning it may be possible other strains are out there that haven't been detected.
Which of these scenarios turns out to be the case could have a significant impact on next season’s flu vaccine, which is made yearly to protect against the most prominent virus strains circulating around the globe.
"Generally, we want less genetic diversity," said Sarah Cobey, an epidemiologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago.
If there are truly fewer strains circulating, then the vaccine stands a better chance of being a good match, making it more effective. In recent years one prominent strain, H3N2, has been problematic since there were so many substrains of it, making it more difficult for a vaccine to broadly protect against it, Cobey said. So far this year, few strains have been identified.
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Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg's School of Public Health "don't want anything to derail their vaccine (injection) campaign."
These esteemed medical institutes rely on the UK-based The Economist pointing out the excessive deaths allegedly due to this fake Covid pandemic while there is no statistics or information about influenza coming from them. Since when is the British financial aristocracy behind The Economist concerned about people dying?
If anyone needs any background to Johns Hopkins University and the Bloomberg School of Public Health and their relationship to Covid, readers will find themselves saturated in material from:
Time to go after the children who in many cases are already unhealthy from a number of factors including poor diet, lack of nutrition and negligence. Then there is the likelihood that vaccines (injections) given from birth on could have been the cause for many children to become sick at a later age. It was the Dell Medical School that received the first Pfizer and AstraZeneca injections in central Texas in December, 2020.
The Dell Medical School is named after the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation after the Dell Foundation (deeply involved in the Covid-19 operation) dropped $50 million back in 2013 into the medical school's coffers. The Dell Foundation has subsequently dropped an additional $100 million over the next ten years into the UT Austin system. Dell Computers made its money by cutting out retailers and going direct to users/customers. Michael Dell himself believes ultimately that "innovation technology is the fulcrum for driving human progress." That "innovation technology" would most likely be Covid injections delivered to Dell Medical School first.
This is because Dell Computers is heavily involved with digital healthcare and Covid injections are a huge component, so naturally Michael Dell wants everyone in Texas Covid injected. Of concern is Dell's connections to the NSA in surveillance programs. The NSA was one of Dell's most "secretive customers." It is likely what we are seeing here is Dell's drive to access data from those registered in healthcare systems who are being Covid injected.
With an "experimental" non-FDA approved injection:
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— Michael Dell (@MichaelDell) March 19, 2020
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— Michael Dell (@MichaelDell) March 29, 2021
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