Typically Flu reporting season ends week 20. Where are all those flu cases going?

Is the prison lockdown knocking the rate down or is free government money turning those flu cases into COVID cash?

Why stop useful data if it would show the lockdown stopped the flu?

https://eriecountypa.gov/departments/health/data-statistics-and-maps/influenza/

This is data from 5 May. The CDC data shown on the graphs in the above link stops at week 6.

Click to access Annual-Comparisons-2013-2014-to-2019-2020-1.pdf

https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/Flu/Pages/2019-20-Flu.aspx

Influenza activity has decreased significantly, so the Bureau of Epidemiology will stop updating this flu activity webpage and last posted report is for week 13 that ended on 28 March, 2020. The report will be updated when flu activity increases with the beginning of the next flu season.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health monitors influenza activity throughout the year but ramps up surveillance activities in the fall and winter. The official influenza surveillance season starts with the 40th week of the year (typically around the beginning of October) and ends on the 20th week of the following year (in May). For the 2019-2020 season, the influenza surveillance season began on Sept. 29, 2019, and will run through May 16, 2020.

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