Rate of positive flu tests plummets to nine-year low

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Rate of positive flu tests plummets to nine-year low
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Physical distancing measures aren’t just helping flatten the COVID-19 curve, with Canadian health authorities now reporting a nine-year low in the national rate of positive flu tests.

the latest figures show “exceptionally low level of influenza activity.” From July 19 to Aug. 22, the percentage of tests that came back positive for influenza was 0.03 per cent, a fraction of the five-year average of 1.43 per cent.The reason behind the dramatic drop, health officials suggest, has a lot to do with the pandemic.

Testing for influenza in the latest five-week period was higher than usual, with reporting laboratories administering three times the average number of tests for this time of year. Public health officials caution that comparing this year’s flu data to other years may be tricky because testing for respiratory viruses was different, particularly in the first four months of the pandemic.

Health officials have long worried that the onset of the fall flu season could coincide with a second wave of COVID-19 cases. Now, doctors across Canada have expressed concerns that they won’t be able to distinguish between the two viruses, both of which lead to headaches, coughing and fever.that public health guidance needs to be more clear when it comes to how to approach COVID-19 testing during the flu season.

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