flu season in Australia. At least it should be.Usually, flu season runs through Australia’s winter — Canada’s summer — and officials look to Australia for clues on what Canada’s upcoming flu season could look like in terms of strains, caseload and severity.But with Australian flu numbers at their lowest in years, officials have a different takeaway this time when they look Down Under: that measures used to combat the coronavirus outbreak could be having an effect on other viruses, too.“I think it’s telling us that influenza is preventable in the same way that COVID is preventable, to some extent, anyway,” said Dr.
Lynora Saxinger, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Alberta. More Canadians planning on getting flu vaccine.