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From the CDC, most recent data.
Most interesting: the spike this past year (B) following Covid lockdown compared too the year before anyone even heard of Covid (A).
There’s some good news about flu season this year. Doctors and scientists don’t expect the worst.
The flu season in the Southern Hemisphere, where the cold-weather illness period wraps up as we head into ours, often serves as a harbinger of what’s to come for us. There, cases picked up a little earlier than usual in some countries but didn’t result in an especially large number of hospitalizations and deaths, say public health experts and doctors.
Also encouraging: The components in this year’s flu vaccine are a good match to the predominant strain so far. One study found that the current version of the flu vaccine reduced the risk for flu-related hospitalizations by 52% in the Southern Hemisphere, a pretty strong indicator of effectiveness.
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