FLU infections have dropped by 93 percent compared with the 2019/2020 season, according to new data from the UK Health Security Agency: flu surveillance report. Could Covid measures be to thank?
"There is no doubt that many of the measures introduced to help combat the spread of COVID have also proved highly effective for the flu."is currently being offered to people over the age of 50, or those who are more at risk from the flu, such as people with certain health conditions or who are pregnant.Since the outbreak of coronavirus, there is some belief that the virus may have replaced the flu as the dominant seasonal illness.
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