5 Reasons Flu Cases Are Way Down This Year

‘I don’t want to jinx us, but this may turn out to be the mildest flu season on record’

Bo Stapler, MD
Elemental
Published in
5 min readJan 9, 2021

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A portrait of a young woman wile wearing a face mask for protection from cold and flu and viruses.
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It’s nearly halfway through the 2020–2021 flu season, and as I walk the halls of the hospital where I work, I realize none of the patients are here with influenza. In fact, only 925 cases of flu have been confirmed in the United States thus far…

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Bo Stapler, MD
Elemental

Health & science writer on Elemental & other pubs. Hospitalist physician in internal medicine & pediatrics. Interpreter of medical jargon. bostapler.medium.com