Doctors warn of ‘catastrophic’ flu season

Doctors are warning of an especially nasty, possibly “catastrophic” flu season this winter.

There were so few influenza illnesses in the U.S. last year that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could not estimate how bad the 2021-22 flu season will be.

“As with COVID, when somebody recovers from a seasonal influenza infection, they retain some level of immunity that protects them against future infection, at least for a short period of time.

"Since our COVID mitigation measures prevented influenza transmission last year, there are not a whole lot of people who were recently infected.”

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