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Flu numbers far below normal during pandemic Steep decline in positive tests during current flu season There has been very little flu activity during the pandemic. and last updated 2021-02-26 07:34:57-05 KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Doctors feared what they called a twindemic in 2020 and into 2021 - trying to contain the possibility that two viruses would circulate throughout the United States during flu season, which runs from October to October, according to the CDC. We were worried last summer and last fall going into this, not knowing what the winter would hold for us and so that was why physicians were really trying to make sure that people were getting vaccinated doing everything that we could to prepare for flu season, said Dr. Jennifer Schuster, a pediatric infectious disease physician with Children s Mercy in Kansas City. Because we did not want flu and the virus that causes COVID-19 circulating at the same time, we know our hospitals have been stretch ....