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welcome to the khaki ride home for friday, June 4th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

COVID-19 precautions largely prevented outbreaks of the flu this past winter, and they also may have caused two types of flu viruses to go extinct.

Speaking of extinction, sharks apparently lost 90% of their population 19 million years ago

and have never fully recovered.

And what day-to-day life is like for the first team to arrive in Japan for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Here are some of the cool things

from the news today. So you probably remember this past winter, maybe you remember the

segment from this show, that flu cases were down to almost nothing this past season.

Despite a fear that usual peaks in the flu between December

and February would cause hospitals to overflow with patients on top of the COVID-19 patients,

it turned out that all the preventative measures, like masks, distancing, and crucially not

traveling internationally, that we were taking to reduce the spread

of the novel coronavirus also helped keep the flu at bay. That and a lot more people than usual

got the flu vaccine. And Johns Hopkins reported in January, quote, the Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention estimates that the flu causes up to 45 million illnesses, up to 810,000 hospitalizations,

and up to 61,000 deaths each year in the United States.

But this flu season, there have been just 925 cases of the flu around the U.S. so far, end quote.

That's huge, or rather minuscule, I suppose.

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