Well What Is it?

Is that new, because the flu has been coming back every year for like ever?

The first flu vaccine was created in 1938 and used to treat soldiers fighting in WWII. It was made available to civilians in 1946. So, not new at all.

I get a free flu shot from work every year.

Me too.

Around a half million people die from the flu, vaccine or not. Also, the vaccine created each season is a best guess - which explains efficacy being around 20% year over year.

That meme is apt for you.

It was 16% better than not getting it for 2019. About 12% less effective than just taking vitamin D.

For one thing, the flu isn’t “gone”, as you claim.

Also, COVID-19 spreads more easily than flu and causes more serious illnesses in some people. It can also take longer before people show symptoms and people can be contagious for longer. Another important difference is there is a vaccine to protect against flu. There is currently no vaccine to prevent COVID-19.

Comparing stats of influenza to COVID-19 doesn’t give an accurate story. Each death due to influenza in the U.S. does not have to be reported, so there is never a direct count. Each flu season, the CDC estimates deaths from the flu based on in-hospital deaths and death certificate data. They continue to update the data on their website as they collect it. Therefore, numbers from the last two flu seasons are not considered final just yet. Conversely, each death due to COVID-19 is being recorded. The numbers you see and hear about are not estimates.

Go to bitchute and type in "dr. Birx says the flu no longer exists"

YouTube is only a slightly more reliable source of information than the MSM 😂

This is from an interview showing the context of what she’s talking about.
“The second way is really understanding influenza like illness and converting that entire surveillance program and monitoring program to COVID-like illness, which we can throughout the summer months because we don't have flu.”

I'm not sure what video you watched on youtube but I saw the briefing live. I remember what she said - also, covid dipped in the summer months and they were more concerned with the second wave as we would see with any kind of cold like virus. The flu doesn't mysteriously disappear in the summer months, it's reduced...here in Canada it's minimal at around 1.2 to 2% depending on the region. Any ways - context aside - bitchute is one of the only places you will find this clip.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/yrqPfP5iWPsU/

Yup, that’s the same video I saw on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/w1xwsixmSbU

She might have failed to provide context in that particular clip (can’t really tell since we don’t know what she said before or after). But she’s talked about the same thing in multiple press conferences and she’s clearly talking about during the summer months.