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What We Learned About COVID-19 and Cold and Flu Season
Day-to-day life changed a lot when COVID-19 hit. To curb the spread of the virus, health experts urged us to social distance, wear a mask, and wash our hands all the time. Then a surprising thing happened.
“All the normal respiratory infections we usually get -- from cold and flu viruses -- didn’t happen, which was very dramatic,” says Ellen Foxman, MD, PhD. She’s an immunobiologist at Yale Medicine and an assistant professor of laboratory medicine and immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine.
Source: WebMD