{"id":177621,"date":"2021-02-26T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=177621"},"modified":"2021-02-26T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T22:29:09","slug":"report-flu-has-virtually-disappeared-from-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-flu-has-virtually-disappeared-from-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Flu Has \u2018Virtually Disappeared\u2019 From U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-flu-has-virtually-disappeared-from-u-s%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=177621&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1078607412-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>According to a new report, the flu has practically vanished from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/flu-has-disappeared-us-pandemic-2145d999319b53d8a32a829a324f398d\">AP reported<\/a> on Thursday, adding, \u201cExperts say that measures put in place to fend off the coronavirus \u2014 mask wearing, social distancing and virtual schooling \u2014 were a big factor in preventing a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/virus-outbreak-europe-us-news-flu-11a82c3a91e008d0640948c64e28f9ea\">twindemic<\/a>\u2018 of flu and COVID-19. A push to get more people vaccinated against flu probably helped, too, as did fewer people traveling, they say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlu season typically peaks between December and February each year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/about\/burden\/index.html\">estimates that the flu causes up to 45 million illnesses<\/a>, up to 810,000 hospitalizations and up to 61,000 deaths each year. But this flu season, there have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/weekly\/#PublicHealthLaboratories\">been just 925 cases of the flu around<\/a>\u00a0the U.S so far,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/news\/newsroom\/news-releases\/covid-19-story-tip-flu-cases-dramatically-low-so-far-this-season\">Johns Hopkins Medicine<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlu season typically runs through May, so there\u2019s still a chance that flu cases will pick up in the next few months. Also, one strain of flu \u2014 influenza B \u2014 tends to circulate later in the season,\u201d the organization pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year has been incredibly different. Probably not seen before for 100 years,\u201d\u00a0Beth Daly, the\u00a0Chief of the N.H\u00a0Bureau of Infectious Disease Control, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/communicable-diseases-COVID-39052206\">stated<\/a>. \u201cNormally, there\u2019s literally thousands of people who get influenza.\u00a0On an average week in the winter,\u00a010% of all people dying, are dying from influenza. So, this year is very remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AP suggests that it is also possible that \u201cthe coronavirus has essentially muscled aside flu and other bugs that are more common in the fall and winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lynnette Brammer of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged, \u201cThis is the lowest flu season we\u2019ve had on record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AP noted that only one pediatric flu death has been reported so far this season, while 92 were reported at the same point last year.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/influenza\/surveillance_monitoring\/updates\/latest_update_GIP_surveillance\/en\/\">World Health Organization<\/a> reported on February 15:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Globally, despite continued or even increased testing for influenza in some countries, influenza activity remained at lower levels than expected for this time of the year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, influenza activity remained below baseline, though sporadic detections of influenza A and B viruses were reported in some countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the temperate zone of the southern hemisphere, influenza activity was reported at inter-seasonal level.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the Caribbean and Central American countries, no influenza detections were reported. Severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) activity increased in some reporting country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In tropical South America, there were no influenza detections reported in this period.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In tropical Africa, influenza activity continued to be reported in Western Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In Southern Asia, sporadic influenza detections were reported across reporting countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In South East Asia, influenza detections were reported in Lao People\u2019s Democratic Republic (PDR).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Worldwide, influenza B detections accounted for the majority of the very low numbers of detections reported.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report, the flu has practically vanished from the United States. \u201cFlu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports coming in at far lower levels than &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274322,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1078607412-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Flu Has \u2018Virtually Disappeared\u2019 From U.S.","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1078607412-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Flu Has \u2018Virtually Disappeared\u2019 From U.S.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}