COVID-19, but a local epidemiologist says the effect it appears to have had on Manitoba’s flu numbers this year can be considered nothing short of a win.Amazingly, Manitoba has recorded just one case of influenza this flu season, a number so low — and unprecedented — Cynthia Carr, the founder of EPI Research Inc., says technically, we can’t even say we had flu season at all.
More than 268,000 Manitobans have had flu shot so far, says province “We certainly were concerned about how this was going to go, whether there would be a twin period where we had high circulation of the flu and COVID-19 at the same time,” Carr said this week.“(But) we didn’t see that at all, you know, like there’s like a 98-per cent reduction in the number of.