Flu Vanishes, Trump Questions ‘Exaggerated’ CDC Claims

Flu Vanishes, Trump Questions ‘Exaggerated’ CDC Claims

In a recent Tweet, Donald Trump questioned the infection and death rates due to Covid-19.  He also questioned the relative cases and deaths as compared to other countries, which use different methods and which may also intentionally downplay their numbers:

The number of cases and deaths of the China Virus is far exaggerated in the United States because of @CDCgov’s ridiculous method of determination compared to other countries, many of whom report, purposely, very inaccurately and low. “When in doubt, call it Covid.” Fake News!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2021

This sparked another public disagreement between President Trump and Dr. Fauci.  Perhaps Trump is upset because he viewed the CDC statistics on the CDC’s own website. According to the CDC, the flu seems to have disappeared between week 51  (December) of 2019 and Week 51 of 2020.  The flu has existed for over 100 years and has never disappeared to this miraculous degree during the flu season.  This has caused many people, including perhaps The President, to once again call into question the testing methods and motivations of the people in charge of these things–including the CDC.

Some suggest that, perhaps, the flu and Covid-19 cases are not being properly separated in the data, or that there is no way to distinguish between the two, functionally.  In any case, it is quite a scientific miracle that the flu could nearly vanish.  It is also quite interesting that it did so at precisely the same time that COVID skyrockets.  Is there any previous biological precedent for this?

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