re: CoVids Impact on Flu

I didn’t pay attention to flu season in Southern Hemisphere over their winter after Wuhan, but did something change there or just upon further review for Flu and Wuhan to go from unusual/unlikely to be infect someone at same to many fearing it to be a much larger possibility now.

I read once having cold virus and flu at same time were also unlikely.


From back in May

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How common is it to have both the flu and COVID-19? “It’s very unusual. There has been a handful or less of such instances reported,” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, told TODAY. “We would anticipate that, if anything, you’re likely to get more severe disease.”

When COVID-19 tests weren’t readily available, doctors often tested people for other illnesses first. “If you were to test first for flu and the flu was positive you would not test further,” Schaffner explained.

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https://news.yahoo.com/flu-coronavirus-same-time-161000801.html