The 2020 flu season had the lowest rates of positive tests ever recorded.
With many Americans staying home, washing hands and practicing social distancing, last year's flu season saw the lowest rates of positive tests, hospitalizations and deaths from the flu since the CDC started recording this data in 2005.
"I think international travel has been low so, you know, just infected people moving around the globe and seeding other geographic spaces has been reduced," Webby told ABC News.MORE: Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine 90% effective at preventing hospitalization, even with delta variant: Study "The flu is often in a cycle between the northern and southern hemispheres," Adalja told ABC News."There's a high likelihood that it could also still be a mild flu season just because there's less flu circulating on the planet, in general."
"When they are infected with flu, they shed very large amounts of virus, more than adults and for longer periods of time," Schaffner said."They are a real distribution mechanism for the virus.""We have been through one and a half seasons, with no real flu circulation. So, it's also possible that, as a population, our immunity to flu is a little bit lower," Webby said.
"We want to prevent severe hospitalizations and death, but we want to prevent symptomatic infection, too," Bhatt told ABC News."Symptomatic infections can keep people out of work, can make you feel miserable."
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