By Carey Goldberg, WBUR Reporter
February 18, 2021
Carey Goldberg, WBUR Reporter
Dr. Daniel Solomon wasn’t just scared of a bad flu season. With the coronavirus still circulating, he was scared of even a normal flu season.
“I was concerned about overwhelming our hospital capacity,” he said. “Our ICUs have been running on a thin margin, and I was concerned that if there was an additional surge of influenza, we just wouldn’t have the resources to care for patients.”
Solomon is an infectious diseases doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he and colleagues review the flu numbers at weekly meetings.
Infectious disease specialists had feared a double hit from both flu and COVID-19, but it appears that measures to stem COVID have also kept the flu at bay.