Thread by @jillpromoli

An average of ~3500 Canadians die from the flu in a typical year.

That number sounds so small in the wake of #COVID19, but that's a lot of people lost to a preventable illness.

But this year all our illness prevention efforts wiped out the flu. Compare to previous years. 1/5

People over 65, kids under 5, pregnant women, and people with underlying health concerns are at greatest risk from the flu's most serious complications, but risk isn't absolute and perfectly healthy younger adults die from this preventable disease, too. 2/5

#ForJudeForEveryone

I don't know what the flu might look like in the next year or two, but my hope is that the lessons we've learned through the pandemic will carry forward and we'll do a better job protecting ourselves and each other. In all this devastation, we saved kids this year. 3/5

Like #COVID19, everyone who gets the flu gets it from someone else, and it's preventable when we all do our part. We can and must do better with #flushot participation, #PaidSickDays to enable people to stay home, and other methods to protect us all. 4/5

#ForJudeForEveryone

I'm very interested to see how our culture around masking may change as we come out of the pandemic. Will we seem them regularly through traditional flu season? Worn preventatively, or by those feeling unwell? I don't know, but it's been really nice not getting sick this year.5/5