Pedestrians wear masks in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. The U.S. may be in for a severe flu season this year if trends in the Southern Hemisphere — historically a seasonal harbinger for the U.S. — hold true.
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The U.S. may be in for a severe flu season this year if trends in the Southern Hemisphere — historically a seasonal harbinger for the U.S. — hold true.
It isn’t the first time since the Covid pandemic began that experts have warned of a bad flu season or even a “twindemic”: a bad flu season on top of a winter surge of Covid. But so far, that hasn’t materialized.
What makes this year different, however, is that flu is surging in Australia for the first time since the pandemic began. Flu season in Australia can be an indication of what’s to come in the U.S.
Australia is nearing the end of its worst flu season in five…
