What's interesting is the chart on the website. This 2024 flu season is worse than 2023, and 2023 was worse than 2022. If the "immunity debt" theory was right, this wouldn't be happening. Could all the well documented evidence that covid harms your immune system and makes you more susceptible to other diseases possibly be true? 
Hospitals in England are being hit by a "tidal wave" of flu and other winter viruses, NHS bosses say.
Data released by NHS England showed there were an average of nearly 1,900 beds occupied by flu patients last week – up 70% on the week before.
That is more than three times higher than this time last year, with doctors warning that they are struggling to contain the spread of the virus within hospitals as well as seeing more patients being admitted.
Covid, RSV and the vomiting bug Norovirus are also continuing to cause problems.
Thankfully, for now, it looks like we have a few weeks before covid takes off everywhere in the US, and it won't be as dramatic as the last one because the summer surge was pretty large and their haven't been any new significant mutations showing up in a while.... but the UK is probably a preview for what's about to happen in the US. Whooping cough is going nuts at the moment.
JPweiland forcasts covid waves, and has been remarkable accurate so far.
Reminder that masking works especially well against the flu and other less contagious virus. Always mask in places that vulnerable and high risk people can't avoid!
The flu is deadly to elderly and people with health conditions so they should definitely get a flu shot.
Regular people should get it too, but some countries think it's no big deal for healthy younger people to get it for some reason so they don't encourage flu shots. It's traditionally been tricky to predict which strain of flu will circulate in different areas so it's effectiveness in pre-covid years could be spotty.
But after covid it's become very clear that serious post-viral complications aren't limited to covid, and we should have always been doing more to stop the spread of flu. On average they estimate that people get the flu every 3-5 years, but the amount of people who don't know the difference between a cold and a flu is quite large. Covid is more like 1-3 times a year.
I've never been tested for the flu in my life but I'm certain I've had it and it was awful every time, and some of the symptoms people report after getting covid I've had for years, and it was likely the result of a flu. But previously I always thought "sometimes bodies just do that, nothing we can do".
Wow that's awful, I'm sorry to hear that. I have had post COVID symptoms for about 6 months now
I've never heard of it from the flu before, makes sense tho. We lack so much medical knowledge it's insane.
Last time I got the flu I shit myself lol I thought that was a pretty big deal!