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FILE - This Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020 file photo shows influenza vaccine syringes at the L.A. Care Health Plan and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan's Community Resource Center's Free Drive-Thru vaccination event in Los Angeles. February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors' offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not in 2021. Flu has virtually disappeared, with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, flu has disappeared in the US

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, flu has disappeared in the US
FILE - This Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020 file photo shows influenza vaccine syringes at the L.A. Care Health Plan and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan's Community Resource Center's Free Drive-Thru vaccination event in Los Angeles. February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors' offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not in 2021. Flu has virtually disappeared, with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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This image provided by the Ad Council in February 2021 shows part of a marketing campaign to promote COVID-19 coronavirus vaccination in the United States. The
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, file photo, a health care worker tends to a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center during the coronavirus pandemic in San Jose, Calif. The coronavirus death toll in California surpassed 50,000 on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, marking about one-tenth of the U.S. total from the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Specialist explains how COVID-19 impacts people with heart conditions
Specialist explains how COVID-19 impacts people with heart conditions
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Local specialist encourages public to get thyroid checked
Local specialist encourages public to get thyroid checked
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Students hold signs as they take part in a rally to encourage wider opening of in-person learning in the Issaquah School District, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, in Issaquah, Wash., east of Seattle. Students in kindergarten and lower-elementary grades in the district recently returned to school under a hybrid in-person learning program, but older elementary, middle-, and high school students are still being taught remotely. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
AP FACT CHECK: Biden on virus deaths, Kerry's climate crisis
President Joe Biden speaks about the 500,000 Americans that died from COVID-19, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Wildfire victims sue former PG&E executives alleging neglect
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2017, file photo, a row of chimneys stand in a neighborhood devastated by the Tubbs fire near Santa Rosa, Calif. A trust representing more than 80,000 victims of deadly wildfires ignited by Pacific Gas and Electric's rickety electrical grid is suing nearly two dozen of the utility's former executives and board members for alleged dereliction of their duty to ensure the equipment wouldn't kill people. The complaint filed Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, in San Francisco Superior Court is an offshoot of a $13.5 billion settlement that PG&E reached with the wildfire victims while the utility was mired in bankruptcy from January 2019 through June last year. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Jill Biden says health inequities have lasted 'far too long'
First lady Jill Biden gestures as she speaks during a visit to the Massey Cancer center at Virginia Commonwealth University for a discussion about cancer disparities. in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
FDA says single-dose shot from J&J prevents severe COVID
FILE - This Dec. 2, 2020 photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows vials of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine protects against COVID-19, according to an analysis by U.S. regulators Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, that sets the stage for a final decision on a new and easier-to-use shot to help tame the pandemic. The Food and Drug Administration's scientists confirmed that overall, it's about 66% effective and also said J&J's shot, one that could help speed vaccinations by requiring just one dose instead of two, is safe to use. (Johnson & Johnson via AP)
Lawsuits filed against auto insurers over rates in pandemic
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2019, file photo, attorney Robert Eglet speaks during a news conference in Las Vegas. A class action lawsuit was filed Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Nevada against 10 major auto insurance companies, contending that the companies charged excessive insurance premiums during the pandemic for failing to fairly take into account a drop in driving and crashes. Eglet, lead counsel for the law firm Eglet Adams, which filed the lawsuits, said
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine works well in big 'real world' test
FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 file photo, a pharmacist prepares a syringe with Pfizer's vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination site in New York. A real-world test of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in more than half a million people has confirmed it's highly effective at preventing serious illness or death, even after one dose, according to a report released on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Things to Know: States push their own relief packages
FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2021, file photo, Edith Cordova, co-owner of Cinco de Mayo restaurant, delivers food for customers dining outside in New York. Not waiting for more federal help, states have been approving their own coronavirus aid packages, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help residents and business owners devastated by the the pandemic's economic fallout. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
After mental health break, a turnaround at Detroit Mercy
FILE- In a Dec. 4, 2020 file photo, Detroit Mercy head coach Mike Davis prepares to talk to his team during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Michigan State, in East Lansing, Mich. In a college basketball season unlike any other, players have had to adjust to coronavirus protocols and just general anxiety about what's to come. Even for those who manage to avoid catching the virus, the mental strain can be a real issue. Detroit Mercy's men's basketball program paused activities earlier this season, citing the mental health of its players. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
EXPLAINER: UN vaccine plan is underway, but problems remain
This photograph released by UNICEF Wednesday Feb. 24, 2021 shows the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility arriving at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana. As the coronavirus pandemic exploded worldwide last April, global organizations banded together to help ensure vaccines would be distributed fairly. But the COVAX initiative has been dogged by shortages of cash and supplies as well as logistical hurdles, and only on Wednesday did the first vaccines bought by program arrive in Ghana. (Francis Kokoroko/UNICEF via AP)
Health network allowed employees' kin to skip vaccine line
FILE - In this June 12, 2020, file photo, resident physicians of Geisinger,who invited all members of the Geisinger family, observe a moment of silence together in Plains Pa. Geisinger, one of Pennsylvania's largest health networks, allowed employees' family members to skip the COVID-19 vaccine line, raising questions of fairness at a time of strong public demand and scarce supply. Geisinger says those family members met the state's eligibility requirements. (Mark Moran/The Citizens' Voice via AP, File)
States pass their own virus aid, not waiting on Washington
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2020, file photo, a server carries food for a customer at Ye Olde King's Head in Santa Monica, Calif. Not willing to wait for more federal help, states have been moving ahead with their own coronavirus relief packages. Maryland and California recently moved forward with help for the poor, the jobless, small businesses and those needing child care. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
Biden aims to distribute masks to millions in 'equity' push
President Joe Biden holds a virtual bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Hungary rolls out China's Sinopharm jab amid lagging trust
Csaba Lengyel, President of the University of Szeged's Szent-Gyorgyi Albert Clinic Center shows a vial of the vaccine against COVID-19 produced by Chinese Sinopharm at the university in Szeged, Hungary, Wednesday, February 24, 2021. (Tibor Rosta/MTI via AP)
Ukraine: Health workers welcome COVID-19 vaccination drive
An elderly woman suffering from COVID-19 breathes with the help of an oxygen mask, foreground, as a nurse treats a patient in central district hospital of Kolomyia, western Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. After several delays, Ukraine finally received 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine marketed under the name CoviShield, the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccine doses. The country of 40 million is one of the last in the region to begin inoculating its population. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A shot in the arm: EU vaccine program struggles to speed up
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2021 file photo, frozen vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are taken out to be defrosted at the MontLegia CHC hospital in Liege, Belgium. EU leaders on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, during an EU summit video conference, will look at ways to improve the vaccine rollout, as they press pharmaceutical companies to respect the terms of their contracts with the 27-nation bloc. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
2 hard-hit cities, 2 diverging fates in vaccine rollout
People line up for vaccines at a clinic in Central Falls, R.I., Saturday Feb. 20, 2021. Nearly a third of adults in the city have received at least one dose of vaccine, according to state data. Health officials say the city of about 20,000 has seen a marked drop in COVID-19 cases as a result. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
'Don't worry, come forward': Asian nations get 1st shots
Malaysia's Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin receives the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Malaysia Health Ministry via AP)
Lawsuits filed against auto insurers over rates in pandemic
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2019, file photo, attorney Robert Eglet speaks during a news conference in Las Vegas. A class action lawsuit was filed Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Nevada against 10 major auto insurance companies, contending that the companies charged excessive insurance premiums during the pandemic for failing to fairly take into account a drop in driving and crashes. Eglet, lead counsel for the law firm Eglet Adams, which filed the lawsuits, said
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