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COVID-19 measures stops flu season in its tracks – Talking Aged Care
Australia’s influenza numbers plummeted in 2020 following the announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic, r…
Immunisation peak body, the Immunisation Coalition, released a chart showcasing the huge difference in flu numbers over the last year, with March 2020 dramatically dropping to under 400 influenza cases within a month.
Kim Sampson, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Immunisation Coalition, says that if the pandemic wasn’t a factor, the drop in flu numbers would have been completely abnormal behaviour and we would have been gearing up for another big flu season.
“It’s the action that we took to…
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