Claim: "There is no evidence to support the contention that masks would stop influenza while failing to stop COVID"; "Influenza has been renamed COVID-19 in large part"
Fact-check: Lower flu activity this season likely due to COVID-19 restrictions, increased flu vaccination, and other factors, not to misdiagnosis of flu cases as COVID-19 - Science Feedback
Verdict: misleading
Organisation: Science Feedback
Author: Iria Carballo-Carbajal
Date published: 2021-01-17T19:31:49