Jeff Deist on the dropping of seasonal flu cases

You know that basically now there's no flu cases?  Pharmacies across the country in the United States are reporting basically no prescribing of tamaflu?  Tamaflu is the cheap generic go-to for most doctors come November-December through the winter for flu.  And the idea that there's no flu in America, flu has been eradicated - no, flu has not been eradicated.  What's happening is that... COVID is sort of a layering diagnosis which is going on in all kinds of things.  So you're seeing people with flu plus COVID or obesity plus COVID or whatever kind of co-morbidity is all being dragged into a big bucket of COVID diagnosis that we can juice these numbers and create perception.

~ Jeff Deist, "Ep. 1802 Jeff Deist on the 2020 Fiasco, and Whether There’s a Case for Hope," The Tom Woods Show, December 24, 2020