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by spijdar 2022 days ago
I can't speak to a wide area, but where I live in the US, the flu is definitely not dead. Despite wearing a mask, keeping socially distance and basically not traveling except when essential, I caught type B of the flu, and my doctors told me they've had a shocking number of flu cases.

They seemed to expect to see fewer, too, but have observed the opposite.

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> Seasonal influenza activity in the United States remains lower than usual for this time of year.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

While not dead as GP expressed, there are notably fewer infections so far this year.

That's fair. I didn't mean to imply things are exploding, though I guess it sounds like I did.

It just sounds like even doctors expected flu to be almost non-existent, but instead it seems ... oddly normal.

> Key Points

> Flu activity is unusually low at this time but may increase in the coming months.

How did you even get the flu.

I'll probably start to use a mask every flu season.