It’s possible to have two viral infections at the same time. It will be REALLY important for everyone to get their flu shots next fall - both to reduce additional burden on the healthcare system during what MAY be a second wave of Covid, and to protect yourself from the likely deadly combination of having influenza and CoVID at the same time.
Don, the 19 people were a cluster, not random people, all associated with one polling place and I believe a couple of poll workers there included. Epidemiologists can tell the difference and in fact can do super sophisticated DNA examinations to show the same sub strain is involved in all the people in a cluster. There are likely many more transmissions not detected because they didn’t involve as many people or simply nobody noticed. My guess is if they have one recognized cluster of 19 ( and still counting last I heard) that probably at least 100 people got infected at the polls that day. Unnecessarily.
