Dr. Colm Henry:

The flu season started earlier this year and has been climbing for longer and peaked higher than any other season for many years. Flu seasons can go on, not just through February and March, but sometimes to early April. While it seems to have peaked now - it will take another week before we are certain it has peaked - it will take some time before those flu figures fall down, along with Covid-19, to levels where the unscheduled care pressures that we witnessed for the past few weeks will not be nearly as severe.