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What's Happening to the Children?
We've had huge numbers of strep A, this autumn and winter. That's normally an infection that is more of a spring-summer kind of thing. Flu arrived earlier than it normally does, and everything just seems a little bit up in the air. Yes, and I think that's because we disrupted those normal seasonal patterns, but well over two years. As those infections are now starting to circulate again, now we're all mixing and moving around much more. Those pathogens have encountered populations, particularly of children, who don't have the levels of immunity that they would otherwise have had. And so as they start to mix, then you've got people who are carrying those infections and