1/ Okay, the French paper. Published April 11, received no attention. The authors exhaustively tracked an early French #COVID cluster in a ski chalet. The findings are of great importance for two reasons: first, one of the cases was a child - a nine-year-old...

2/ He later attended three schools and had contact with 86 people (61 are defined as “high-risk”). Not ONE was infected with #SARS_CoV2.

3/ However, he also had the flu - and he spread that widely - to 19 other students. In total, the investigators traced 172 contacts and found ONE case of coronavirus transmission but 24 flu transmissions and 33 other viral transmissions. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa424/5819060

4/ Since the flu and even cold viruses can be deadly to the elderly, this raises the obvious question of whether people whose deaths are classified as “probable” #COVID - that is, they don’t have a positive #SARS_CoV2 test result but appear to have died of respiratory illness...

5/ Were in fact infected with the coronavirus at all, some other respiratory virus, or nothing. It is unlikely we will ever know.