Locked Onto Influenza Revisited

by Les May

Today Jeremy Hunt admitted that in the UK, as well as in much of Europe and the USA, the response to Covid19 had been based on how an Influenza pandemic would be dealt with. This would explain why testing was largely abandoned on or about 8 March.

Because the progress of Influenza epidemics is well understood, after initial testing to identify the Influenza strain which is circulating in the general population, it is usually abandoned with no deleterious effects. It may be restarted after the first peak of infections has passed if a second peak seems to be coming, in order to identify whether it is a different strain.

http://northernvoicesmag.blogspot.com/2020/04/locked-onto-influenza.html

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