Levels of influenza-like illness, used as a measure of the respiratory disease’s spread, have been on a decline for three weeks since early January.
The flu is back with case counts that look comparable to those that predate the pandemic, with one important distinction.
An increasingly lax approach to COVID-19 control measures like masking, social distancing and hand-washing has allowed the flu to resume its annual pattern of spread around the country, health officials said. “It could go down and stay down, or you could have another increase with influenza B,” Schaffner said.
“COVID clearly dominates the causes of death and number of cases in New Mexico hospitals, but we have an existing huge fire and flu adds more fuel to the fire,” said Jagdish Khubchandani, a public health professor at the New Mexico State University.
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