Flu cases have been shockingly low during the pandemic. Here why.
(World News Science)

Vaccines, behavior changes, and viral interactions may all play a role. (CDC/) This year`s public health headlines have mostly focused on COVID-19, and for good reason. Despite the pandemic`s impact on all of us, sick and healthy, we`ve actually seen a record-breaking low amount of another icky, highly-contagious respiratory virus—the flu. Just to put it in perspective, from late September to late December in 2019, we faced over 65,000 cases of the flu. In that same chunk of time in 2020, only a smidge over...