There have been several flurona occurrences in the US, dating back to February 2020 when a New York family tested positive for both viruses.
“The potential for a really large outbreak this year is high,” Mark Roberts, director of the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory at Pitt Public Health and senior author of the preprint paper, toldin October. He added that “places that are not being careful about COVID could have a profound pandemic of influenza and COVID.”
Experts are still unsure what co-infections mean for disease severity. Israel’s Health Ministry is currently investigating whether simultaneous infections result in worse health outcomes, but there is currently no data to indicate a trend either way. “We have rather limited understanding of how [different infections] interact with one another… to result in the illness affecting each patient,” Aubrey Cunnington, head of the pediatric infectious diseases department at Imperial College London, told. He added that having more than one pathogen doesn’t necessarily mean worse symptoms of disease. How our bodies multitask against influenza and coronavirus is something that no doubt requires further study.
The bottom-line recommendation for protection against COVID-19, the flu, and the combination of both is vaccination. It’s okay to get a COVID-19 vaccine and a flu shot at the same time. The flu and COVID-19 are both respiratory diseases with many overlapping symptoms, caused by viruses that spread through the air. Testing and quarantine are also recommended to help mitigate the spread of disease.
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