Flu season is upon us in the midst of a raging epidemic. ‘You can certainly get the flu and COVID-19 at the same time,’ Dr. Adrian Burrowes, family medicine physician told MSN.
‘Catching the flu and some other respiratory viruses weakens your body,’ epidemiologist Dr. Seema Yasmin explains. ‘Your defenses go down, and it makes you vulnerable to getting a second infection on top of that.’
Could We Face a ‘Twindemic’ of Respiratory Diseases?
John Hopkins Medicine confirmed the influenza flu season will return in the next couple weeks, while the COVID pandemic continues. Influenza cases typically increase in October, and the trend can continue until late May.
Last season was mild, John Hopkins says. However, severe seasons often follow after mild ones. So we need to take extra care during the current surge. Other respiratory viruses may also circulate at this time too.
Our hospitals will take the first impact of the twindemic, if it happens. We must do our best to keep demand for intensive care beds as low as we can. John Hopkins recommends the familiar preventative measures we already know so well by now.
The Precautions We All Must Take This Flu Season
We should know them off-by-heart by now. We should protect our families and loved ones by having the flu vaccine. We should wash hands frequently, wear face masks, and maintain proper physical distancing with all our hearts.
We can’t wait for our government to come up with magic solutions, because there are none waiting behind the scenes. We are not watching science fiction movies either. Real people like you and we are dying every day. Because they and some other people just did not get it, in time.
They just did not understand, or refused to believe the lives our compatriots, and the health of our economy depends on how we behave each day in the years ahead.
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