[Mom MD]

I have commented up thread. We are not seeing much flu. It may be a light flu season or it may just be too early. There are years where we don’t see significant flu until january or february

[2aProtectsTheRest]

To expand on this, flu season is variable from year to year. Sometimes it begins very early (like last year), even into October. Sometimes there's little flu activity seen until much later, even as late as March. Here's the graph of previous years' flu season peaks:

More context around this is available here. So far this year, we've seen low flu activity into December. That's not all that unusual. If we were in the middle of March right now and still hadn't seen much flu activity? That would be worth exploring why that is. Changes in behavior? A difference in the flu strains active? More people getting the flu vaccine? Who knows. But since we're only in December, it's not even worth looking at because we're still well within the range of what is normal for flu season.