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The article itself is behind a paywall, so this might have been in the text.

But... could that be explained by all respiratory illnesses being called "covid" this year? The numbers are simply hiding in another graph?

From the article

In the first two weeks of August, the who processed nearly 200,000 influenza tests, and found just 46 were positive. In a typical year, the number would be closer to 3,500.

So sounds like this is based on a test, making misclassification unlikely to be the root cause?

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