Two types of flu disappear because of COVID-19?

With restrictive measures such as wearing masks, closing schools and stopping travel, flu infection is at a historically low level in the world, so H3N2 and B/Yagata may have disappeared, the STTTnews.com website reported.

None of these viruses were observed this year, for more so, in March 2020, the latest cases of B/Yagata and H3N2 were recorded.

The STAT writes that “in the ocean of viruses, their number has begun to decline, which is a welcome result, experts say, which makes it easier to make seasonal vaccines in the northern and southern hemisphere”.

I think there's a real chance they're gone, but the world is a big place,” told Ted Bedford STAT biologist near the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

A flu expert at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan has requested genetic databases for the B/Yagata virus and hopes that this species has disappeared forever.

It's just that nobody saw him doesn't mean he's gone, does it? But it may have really disappeared, “said Florian Krammer.

Otherwise, the flu season is unpredictable in the number of cases. flu epidemics are announced annually, but the duration depends on many factors involving the virus's type in circulation of how many vaccines are in line with the virus in circulation and how many have been vaccinated.