{"id":53982,"date":"2021-02-25T17:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=53982"},"modified":"2021-02-25T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:19:43","slug":"uk-health-authorities-announce-not-a-single-case-of-flu-detected-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=53982","title":{"rendered":"UK Health Authorities Announce Not A Single Case Of Flu Detected This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->by Paul Joseph Watson<br \/>\nSummit News<\/p>\n<p><strong>Health authorities in England have announced that not a single case of influenza has been detected this year, with one professor suggesting that mask wearing should be kept in place during winter to drive down flu deaths to \u201czero.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/230221flu1.jpg?itok=HvGdn3zJ\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/230221flu1.jpg?itok=HvGdn3zJ\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/230221flu1.jpg?itok=HvGdn3zJ\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4e94582e-e34f-40ab-8c00-14085186523a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe social restrictions brought in to curb transmission of coronavirus, combined with an increased uptake of flu vaccine, have both been credited with driving down infections,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>reports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/flu-cases-covid-england-phe-latest-b1805124.html\">the Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of the 685,243 samples tested at the PHE\u2019s laboratories since the first week of January, not a single flu infection was discovered.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Christina Pagel went on to suggest that some of the measures brought in to fight coronavirus could be kept in place to combat flu infections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asserting that \u201cwe can reduce flu deaths to pretty much zero,\u201d Pagel said it is \u201cworth encouraging people to wear masks\u201d on public transport and in other busy environments every winter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we previously highlighted, other health experts have suggested that flu cases are so dramatically low because influenza cases are being falsely counted as COVID cases.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, top epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/01\/05\/epidemiologist-says-influenza-cases-are-being-counted-as-covid-19\/\">asserted<\/a>\u00a0that,\u00a0<strong>\u201cInfluenza has been renamed COVID-19 in large part.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the CDC, the cumulative positive influenza test rate from late September into the week of December 19th was just 0.2%, compared to 8.7% from a year before.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wittkowski, former Head of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design at Rockefeller University, this was because many flu infections are being incorrectly labeled as coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThere may be quite a number of influenza cases included in the<u>\u00a0\u2018presumed COVID-19\u2019<\/u>\u00a0category of people who have COVID-19 symptoms (which Influenza symptoms can be mistaken for), but are not tested for SARS RNA,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Wittkowski told Just the News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Numbers published in April last year by the UK\u2019s Office of National Statistics also showed that there had been three times more deaths from flu and pneumonia than coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of deaths from flu and pneumonia \u2013 at more than 32,000 \u2013 is three times higher than the total number of coronavirus deaths this year,\u201d reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-52361519\">the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><em>In the age of mass Silicon Valley censorship It is crucial that we stay in touch. 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