Confirmed influenza cases hit rock-bottom, puzzling infectious disease experts
Experts say a variety of factors — from social distancing to mask usage — might be in play; data suggest more complicated picture.
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By Daniel Payne

Updated: October 25, 2020 - 10:28pm

Even as worries persist over increasing COVID-19 cases in the United States, cases of another virus — influenza — have plummeted relative to their number a year ago.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's FluView influenza tracker lists an influenza-positive test percentage of 0.3% for week 42 of 2020 — a total of 33 positive tests out of 10,809 specimens. That's down sharply from 2.4% during the same week last year.

Visits to healthcare providers for "influenza-like illnesses" during week 42 were also down this year from the last, though not as sharply: This week that rate was 1.2% of all such visits, while last year it was 1.7%.

Sharp drops in influenza have also been observed elsewhere throughout the world over the past several months. World Health Organization global flu surveillance shows a severe dropoff in flu cases starting in early April; whereas in past years flu cases are sustained at a steady plateau over the mid-year months — driven by the Southern Hemisphere's flu season — WHO observation has cases more or less disappearing from April onwards. -- excerpt, rest at link above --

@Tinker I think you just asked about this.

Very suspicious to say the least....