UM, BECAUSE IT’S COLD AND FLU SEASON? Flu and colds are back with a vengeance — why now? At least this article admits that it’s lockdown fallout: “Hensley says that this is because the population ‘is more immunologically naive than what we would expect in most years’. Normally, children get infected by their second birthday. Now, ‘you’re going to end up having kids that are three, four years of age right now who have never seen RSV’.”