Just because you weren’t tested for the flu at your local doctor’s office, that doesn’t mean that the flu isn’t systematically monitored or that infection rates

Just because you weren’t tested for the flu at your local doctor’s office, that doesn’t mean that the flu isn’t systematically monitored or that infection rates haven’t plummeted. The headline is hyperbolic (the article says it’s dropped to “minuscule levels”) but it’s entirely possible to determine that by sampling a small portion of the population.