{"id":215276,"date":"2020-10-20T07:08:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T07:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215276"},"modified":"2020-10-22T06:27:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T06:27:12","slug":"southern-hemisphere-has-record-low-flu-cases-amid-covid-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215276","title":{"rendered":"Southern hemisphere has record low flu cases amid Covid lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Oct 19, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
You have to wonder, are the corporate media scribes really this stupid? Or are they being instructed to ignore the obvious by their editors, who are following guidelines dictated by the media owners?<\/h5>\n
The following is a case in point.<\/h5>\n
According to the Guardian, doctors in New Zealand have not reported a single case of flu since the southern hemisphere\u2019s winter commenced. Last year when doctors tested for flu about 57 percent of samples collected were positive. This year there were none.<\/h5>\n
Crucially, the Guardian fails to ask why.<\/h5>\n
We would suggest that the answer is obvious and that’s why the Guardian fails to ask. In plain terms the answer exposes the lies propagated by the corporate media.<\/h5>\n
Doctors in New Zealand have not recorded any cases of flu since the onset of the pandemic because flu cases have been re-designated as coronavirus cases. They belong to the same group of diseases and exhibit similar characteristics. So doctors are now identifying both as Covid-19.<\/h5>\n
In short, flu cases in New Zealand are now being idenfified and classified as Covid-19 cases. Hence the sudden drop in flu. Ed.<\/h5>\n

Southern hemisphere has record low flu cases amid Covid lockdowns<\/h2>\n

Michael Safi \u2013 The Guardian Sept 17, 2020<\/h2>\n

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Health systems across the southern hemisphere were bracing a few months ago for their annual surge in influenza cases, which alongside Covid-19 could have overwhelmed hospitals. They never came.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many countries in the southern half of the globe have instead experienced either record low levels of flu or none at all, public health specialists in Australia, New Zealand<\/a> and South America have said, sparing potentially tens of thousands of lives and offering a glimmer of hope as winter approaches in the northern hemisphere.<\/span><\/p>\n

General practitioners in New Zealand have not detected a single influenza case since they started screening patients in June, health data shows; last year about 57% of the samples they collected were positive.<\/span><\/p>\n

The last flu cases detected by major hospitals in Auckland, the country\u2019s largest city, were in April. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing. There\u2019s just nothing there at all. No influenza,\u201d said Michael Baker, professor of public health at the University of Otago in Wellington.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Zealand\u2019s Covid-19 rates<\/strong><\/span><\/a> are among the lowest in the world, but even notwithstanding the pandemic, people in the country have experienced their healthiest cold months on record. \u201cOur excess winter mortality peak has largely disappeared,\u201d Baker said.<\/span><\/p>\n

A tracking system that monitors a cohort of at least 30,000 people for influenza-like symptoms shows as few as 0.3% of New Zealanders reported coughs or fevers some weeks during their winter, a tenfold decrease on some previous years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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