Ah yes, the seasonal “totally not covid with covid like symptoms” virus.
Edit: While I was making a bit of a joke about some people who clearly got covid and then claimed otherwise, the article did offer some interesting insights about the differences between Cov-19 and influenza:
Meanwhile, analyses of organ systems showed that Covid-19 caused a higher risk of disease across all organ systems. The only exception where the risk was higher in flu was the pulmonary system.
“This tells us the flu is truly more of a respiratory virus, like we have all thought for the past 100 years,” senior author Ziyad Al-Aly, director of the clinical epidemiology centre at Washington University, said.
“By comparison, Covid-19 is more aggressive and indiscriminate in that it can attack the pulmonary system, but it can also strike any organ system and is more likely to cause fatal or severe conditions involving the heart, brain, kidneys and other organs.”