Home As Covid-19 continues to surge and overwhelm hospitals in NY and California, many are pondering the riddle: Where have all the flu cases gone? A top epidemiologist says the answer is simple: flu cases are now being counted as Covid-19. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images) As Covid-19 continues to surge and overwhelm hospitals in NY and California, many are pondering the riddle: Where have all the flu cases gone? A top epidemiologist says the answer is simple: flu cases are now being counted as Covid-19. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

As Covid-19 continues to surge and overwhelm hospitals in NY and California, many are pondering the riddle: Where have all the flu cases gone? A top epidemiologist says the answer is simple: flu cases are now being counted as Covid-19. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

TOPSHOT – Workers set up beds at an exhibition centre that was converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on February 4, 2020. – The Wuhan government said it plans to convert three existing venues, including a gymnasium and an exhibition centre, into hospitals to take in patients with mild symptoms of the new coronavirus that has so far claimed more than 400 lives. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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