BIG SHOT
IT’S BEING CALLED THE FLU season that wasn’t. Masks and social distancing didn’t simply help curb COVID-19 cases last winter; they also contributed to one of the meekest flu seasons that health officials can recall. Thanks largely to the preventive measures taken to slow the pandemic, the flu virtually disappeared last winter, with fewer than 3,000 reported cases nationwide, compared to the 38 million reported in 2019–2020.
It raises the question: Post-COVID, some
