Australia has officially missed the last two flu seasons as the average of 163,015 cases of influenza a year plummeted to just 598 cases and zero deaths by the end of 2021. Just before the CCP virus arrived in Australia, the country’s National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System tracked 313,033 laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza and 953 deaths in 2019. But in 2020, there were 21,266 cases and 37 deaths—almost eight times lower than the five-year average. This figure fell further to 484 cases and zero deaths at the end of winter 2021. Australia’s latest influenza surveillance report said that “notifications of influenza have remained low since April 2020”, and “remains at historically low levels in 2021.” Despite no evidence of flu spreading in the community nor severe cases leading to hospitalisations, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) is pushing for Australians to get vaccinated against the flu and warned …