This year’s flu season is off to an early start, with 144,000 confirmed cases so far in 2019. That’s more than twice as many confirmed cases of the flu than for all of 2018 (58,000), and almost as many as the 2017 horror flu season (251,000). The number of cases so far this year, including more than 231 deaths nationwide, led the NSW opposition health spokesperson to call for hand...