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The coming flu season may be a doozy.
Even as coronavirus was devastating populations around the world, killing 3.7 million people globally, doctors and public health officials noticed something else was missing: There was almost no flu.
One child died from flu this year in the US. In 2019-2020, there were 199 flu-related deaths in children and 144 the season before that. Flu cases, usually counted in the tens of millions, only accounted for a few thousand this year in the US. Flu hasn t been anywhere, with the exception of some reasonable activity in western Africa, said Richard Webby, an influenza specialist at St. Jude Children s Research Hospital in Memphis.
(KYMA, KECY/CNN) – The coming flu season may be a doozy.
Even as coronavirus was devastating populations around the world, killing 3.7 million people globally, doctors and public health officials noticed something else was missing: There was almost no flu.
One child died from flu this year in the US. In 2019-2020, there were 199 flu-related deaths in children and 144 the season before that. Flu cases, usually counted in the tens of millions, only accounted for a few thousand this year in the US.
“Flu hasn’t been anywhere, with the exception of some reasonable activity in western Africa,” said Richard Webby, an influenza specialist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
As coronavirus devastated populations around the world, doctors and public health officials noticed something else was missing: Almost no one had the flu last year. That's causing concern among experts.
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