Prognosis

Flu’s Return Will Shape the Pandemic’s Impact in Coming Months

Sept. 17: Johns Hopkins Virologist Andrew Pekosz discusses the approaching flu season.Source: Bloomberg
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Charting the course of the pandemic during the coming months is likely to involve a more traditional winter nuisance: the flu.

As countries from Italy to Canada lift restrictions, travel resumes and colder temperatures set in, influenza will probably start circulating as well. That’s after measures to thwart Covid-19 such as masks and ventilation kept the flu at bay for the past year and a half.