A reminder, there are several kinds of influenza out there. Some are coronaviruses, some are not. All that the term corona virus means is that the walls of the virus have little protrusions on them making it look like a "crown". From Seattle's KING-5:
US has 'lowest flu season' on record during COVID pandemic
February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors' offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not this year. Flu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades.
Experts say that measures put in place to fend off the coronavirus — mask wearing, social distancing and virtual schooling — were a big factor in preventing a “twindemic” of flu and COVID-19. A push to get more people vaccinated against flu probably helped, too, as did fewer people traveling, they say.
Influenza usually kills about 50,000 to 80,000 people in the United States each year. What has been happening is that the accepted test for the Wuhan Flu has such a high false-positive rate (as high as 90%) that people coming in with regular influenza are getting diagnosed with the 'rona. As well as heart disease, gunshot wounds, traffic accidents, blunt-force trauma, liver disease, hypertension, etc... For every death listed as COVID-19, there are an average of 2.6 contributing co-morbidities. This is from the CDC itself.
The take-away? We had a bog-standard flu season. We also had this new disease from China at the same time. Nothing to bother yourself with. Masks do not do anything. Areas that lock down do not do any different from areas that do not lock down.
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