Quote Originally Posted by Dawgology View Post
Actually that could be the case. This is an interesting article that I think may shed a little light on Italy's current crisis.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...01971219303285

It appears they barely have the seasonal flu under control over there much less a new, more aggressive virus. Keep in mind that this article doesn't reflect the 2018/2019 flu season which hit them very hard and was appearing to peak in January of THIS year...right as Covid-19 began hitting them. They actually recorded almost 500,000 cases of the seasonal flu in one week in January. Again, this article was published before Covid-19 was news.
Here's an article about the huge number of flu cases in Italy that hit mid-January

https://ilglobo.com/news/italy-repor...-a-week-46676/

End of January, they confirmed 1st cases of coronavirus. It would be interesting to know if in their death cases did some test positive for flu and coronavirus