But according to scientists like Dr. Andy Pekosz, a professor of microbiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a year without much flu could lead to a year with a whole lot of flu.
Scientists say another aspect of this unusual flu season is that there doesn’t appear to be many flu strains circulating.
“Since we have had so few cases, we’re using a small number to make our choices from,” Pekosz said. “There could be strains circulating at a low number that could come to dominate. We worry about that normally in every flu season, but usually we have a much larger data set to choose from.” Subbarao says there has been no local flu activity in the Southern Hemisphere yet, but it’s still early.flu shot is a poor match for circulating strains“A lot of this is out of our hands,” Hensley said. “The one thing we can do is to get vaccinated. If there was ever a year to get vaccinated, this is the year to do that.”
Who is your main scientist Chuck Todd!!
It wasn't a season with 'no flu'... The flu was remarketed as Covid.
LOL no flu or the biggest flu year in history? 😂
After a year practically flu-free, scientists fear that the next season will be bad, but we had a huge problem with barrier gestures before. How many of my colleagues I see coming out of the toilet without washing their hands .. hell;)
Keep spreading the FEAR
Do experts and scientists worry all the time or just weekdays ?
C'mon man, ease up on the grim news. Monday is bad enough.
I will be wearing my mask. It should be a norm during flu season.
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Between COVID19🦠, the flu, and seasonal allergies, we're keeping the masks😷 on.
Don't prolong the pandemic. Wear a double-mask for the foreseeable future or until we're all safely out of the woods. And, get vaccinated too. Hint: It's a worldwide pandemic! And, you will know when it's all over.
Because of masks?
Who wrote this Trump, could, may, possibly, people are saying.
RT : After year with virtually no flu, scientists worry the next season could be a bad one.
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we defeated the flu. next scourge on the docket; billionaires.
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I hope this is a joke.
Surely it was because people were wearing masks ?
Wow, this headline is bizarre! You’re saying there was no flu last year. Science needs to be an integral part of a LiberalArts education pathway, NBC just proved that!
Stop, just stop.
I should be fine because I will get a flu shot and continue to wear a mask out in public.
Get your vaccine and wear a mask 🙄
Clickbait is ruining our society
1st true thing IVe see NBC post in years, flu is gone. Another Trump achievement: he eradicated the Flu!
Not to worry the republicans aren’t in charge to fuck that response up.
Covid19 was NOT the only coronavirus last year. There was plenty of flu but hardly any coverage of it.
No flu because it was reclassified as Covid. Got the sniffles, you got Covid. Got a headache, you have Covid. Pretty simple.
Please stop!
Please remove the word News from your name
Remember that a mild cold is a coronavirus. Coronaviruses can cause colds with major symptoms, such as fever, and a sore throat from swollen adenoids. Normally this time of the year there would be a huge surge of flu cases in thousands and 60,000 deathsThis year it is all COVID
Thanks Biden!
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Just because you call every flu case COVID, doesn’t mean flu actually went away. Funny how science works like that.
The Professional worrying class needs a kick in the shins.
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God... this has got to be the stupidest article of the year so far... the flu didn't take a year off for the virus.. they blamed everything on the covid and nothing on the flu. Jeuses..the stupidity of the media.. in 2019 the flu killed over 500,000 people.
Wear a mask! Simple, right!
It can't be worse than the allergies I suffer from year after year
'scientists' lol
The next flu will be labeled the newest covid variant.
No flu? Does corporate-media really think people are that stupid?
And yet millions of people die every year from mosquitoes and not a peep. Vending machine deaths are also on the rise
True , because without the mask people will start to coughing and sneezing all over the place and not covering up again.
Just another way for Communist Dems to control the American people. At least they're giving us fair warning.
We will cross that bridge
How do they know ?
Mandate masks in the flu season. Prevention is better than cure.
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No Flu? Right. Every flu for the last year has been lumped under Covid. You think the other flues have disappeared. Dream on.
I'll still have my mask and use them, and get the flu shot.
More lies they use the flu for the dead count of the Corona virus
Masks people. M A S K S.
Bring on more fear lmao
Not if we wear masks during flu season.
I’m not buying into this bullsh*t. This is just an attempt to keep Americans living in fear.
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Isn't covid basicly a flu on steroids?
Here we go...
let’s all wear masks and sanitize and it shouldn’t be bad !
I'm sure there will be panic and paranoia...
Shits gonna get weird. Just wait till they try to explain why people are dying from the common cold too.
We may have lost some immunity to the flu.
With similar symptoms people just got tested for covid instead of the flu. If it came back negative for covid they were probably relieved, and didn’t test for the flu.
The flu didn't go anywhere. Flu cases were counted as Covid for the $$$.
Give us a break. Find something more newsworthy to report on.
There was same amount of flu you just called it cov1d
Get ready for permanent winter masking.
And what I, a layman who hates this corona hoopla, worry is that government, healthcare camps as well as the media may promote the use of PCR testing, touting that flu as the ' deadly new flu ', an addition to everlasting pandemic world.
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