we are speaking with survival medicine specialist dr joe alton doom and gloom dot net every doc i have talked to during this pandemic has made the point get the flu shot just because of corona virus influenza is not taking the year off and that dr fouchier whom you mentioned has warned of twin demick and because cold and flu symptoms are similar better safe than sorry normally this year joe flu hospitalizations are surging and there would be a lot more deaths than we've had but they are not and like everything else lately there's controversy about that conspiracy theorists contend that the health care sector is inflating cove id numbers to make money they charge when co-morbidities involved calmer voices point to the obvious about the flu thing because we're wearing masks and we're social distancing and we're washing our hands the flu just doesn't have a chance admittedly in my layman's reckoning what do you figure. well certainly one of the few silver linings in the pandemic storm cloud has been less cases of contagious disease other than code numbers of flu measles and other infectio