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Flu Season Turned Out to be Mild, Despite Recent Omicron Surge
 [Dallas Morning News] Throughout the pandemic, health experts have warned of the disastrous impacts from a severe flu season coupled with a COVID-19 surge on an already overwhelmed health care system.And although people for some time feared "flurona," or getting the flu virus and COVID-19 at the same time, health experts say it’s been a relatively rare occurrence. So far this year, Dallas County has had a mild flu season despite the rapid spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19 over the past several weeks. County and state trends mirror what’s been seen across the country — nationally, only 2.6% of all influenza tests since Oct. 3, 2021, have come back positive, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But how can the flu virus be so low when omicron was surging? Here’re some questions, and answers from the experts. Lots of expert guessing at link. Posted by: Bobby 2022-02-17 |
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