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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I think most of the seasonal flu has been stopped by all the people who DO choose to wear masks, wash their hands, and social distance.
Even though they're doing it to reduce their risk of COVID-19, those same measures will reduce the risk of catching the flu.
Combine behavioral changes to reduce risk with the flu vaccine that anyone who WOULD get, should already have gotten by now, and you have a significantly reduced total of people with the flu.
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That's the way it happened in Australia - the government and medical experts credited the much lower flu cases to mask-wearing and other CV preventative measures.