What a monumental cluster fuck this has all been.
I believe they’ve already published provisional results of the 19/20 ‘flu season.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
US ‘flu related illnesses of 39M -55M, and deaths 24,000 - 63,000. Presumably the ranges will be narrowed in due course.
This article argues, quite persuasively in my view, that the objective of securing a doctorate is an excessively ambitious undertaking for its writer.