Seasonal Flu Eradicated -- CDC Weekly Surveillance -- September 21, 2021

Link here, a dynamic link.

First, let's look at pediatric deaths due to seasonal flu. Seasonal flu, unlike Covid-19, is particularly dangerous for infants and children, aged 1 - 4 years of age. That was historical. Not so much any more. From the CDC. This should be the lead story over at the CDC site but one actually has to scroll to the very, very bottom of the weekly surveillance report (at the link) and it is easily missed. Of course, this is never reported by the mainsream media (yes, I know the season has just begun -- but look at same week for three past years):

And, "seasonal flu" seems to be eradicated. 

I forget the numbers, but generally, the US reports twenty to forty million cases of seasonal flu each year. Last year, the 2020 - 2021 seasonal flu season, the CDC, with a straight face, reported less than 10,000 cases of seasonal flu. Someone deserves the Nobel Prize in Medicine for that turnaround. Perhaps shared by Trump - Biden. It happened under Biden's watch but the "cure" appeared under Trump's watch.

But doesn't this appear to be incredibly meaningless. The population of the US is said to be 330 million (increasing at a nice rate due to the Haitian influx at the southern border) and yet, less than ten Americans tested positive for "seasonal flu" last week. 

And some of those would have been false positives.

This is just so incredibly ridiculous. I've lost all faith in the credibility of the CDC. But it's still fun to track and watch. Sort of like reading the Babylon Bee. 

Speaking of which, the Democrats call for more infrastructure spending to build more bridges for Haitian migrants to live under. Link here.