Flu season may be pretty mild this year thanks to measures taken to stop the spread of COVID-19, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and quoted online in Live Science.
In the report, published Thursday (Sept. 17) in the CDC journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the researchers note that flu activity in the U.S. right now is at “historical lows,” and that data from the Southern Hemisphere — which has just gone through its winter — showed “virtually no influenza circulation.”
However, nothing is certain when it comes to the flu season, especially during the middle of a pandemic. So it’s still important to prepare for both flu and COVID-19 this fall and winter, and to get a flu shot, the report says.
