And when I mean disappeared, I mean a strain of flu disappeared off the planet. It has not been detected since we blocked it with those COVID masks,” said Roberts.

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It’s an unprecedented low for flu season, and it’s a tribute to how well social distancing measures have worked—though they didn’t stop COVID-19 entirely, influenza has virtually disappeared.

“There’s just no flu circulating,” says Greg Poland, who has studied the disease at the Mayo Clinic for decades. The U.S. saw about 700 deaths from influenza during the 2020–2021 season.