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With coro­n­avirus cas­es soar­ing in late sum­mer, experts warned about the poten­tial for a so-called “twin-dem­ic,” which they said would’ve seen hos­pi­tal sys­tems over­whelmed by both COVID-19 and the influx of flu patients, but the surge nev­er came. In fact, the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion (CDC), is report­ing that flu activ­i­ty in the U.S. “remains low­er than usu­al for this time of year,” which is typ­i­cal­ly the peak of illnesses.Since Oct. 1, 2020, or the start of flu sea­son, there have been 165-lab­o­ra­to­ry con­firmed flu-relat­ed hos­pi­tal­iza­tions in the U.S. Accord­ing to the CDC, not only is this …