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==Threat today==
==Threat today==
While many modern medicines such as [[vaccines]] and drugs are now available a large pandemic could still cause over 100 million deaths worldwide because of increased travel and lengthy lead times to manufacture the life saving drugs.
While many modern medicines such as [[vaccines]] and drugs are now available a large pandemic could still cause over 100 million deaths worldwide because of increased travel and lengthy lead times to manufacture the life saving drugs.
==Influenza Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 <ref>https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937a6.htm</ref> ==
Based on data provided by the [[Center for Disease Control]], the percentage of U.S. respiratory specimens submitted for influenza testing that tested positive decreased from >20% to 2.3% and has remained at historically low inter-seasonal levels (0.2% versus 1–2%). Data from [[Southern Hemisphere]] countries also indicate little influenza activity. ''Officials attribute this lowering to widespread adoption of community mitigation measures to reduce transmission of [[SARS-CoV-2]].''
Inter-seasonal (i.e., summer) circulation of influenza in the United States (May 17–August 8, 2020) is currently at historical lows (median = 0.20% tests positive in 2020 versus 2.35% in 2019, 1.04% in 2018, and 2.36% in 2017).
Influenza data reported to the [[World Health Organization]]’s (WHO’s) FluNet platform from three Southern Hemisphere countries that serve as robust sentinel sites for influenza from [[Oceania]] ([[Australia]]), [[South America]] ([[Chile]]), and [[Southern Africa]] ([[South Africa]]) showed very low influenza activity during June–August 2020, the months that constitute the typical Southern Hemisphere influenza season.
==Further reading==
==Further reading==