SYSTEM STRAIN OR SUPER FLU?

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The UK’s “super flu” headlines are fueling renewed demands for COVID-style restrictions, despite government flu data that tells a very different story. The bar for declaring a flu “epidemic” has been quietly halved, even as the NHS faces severe staffing shortages and a looming doctors’ strike—raising the question of whether institutional strain, not viral severity, is behind the panic.

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