After virtually disappearing for the last two years, there are troubling clues that the flu could come roaring back this year, to cause trouble alongside COVID.
While the flu and the coronavirus are both notoriously unpredictable, there's a good chance COVID cases will surge again this winter, and troubling signs that the flu could return too., an infectious disease professor at Vanderbilt University."That is, we have a surge in COVID and simultaneously an increase in influenza. We could have them both affecting our population at the same time.
And the combination of the two viruses could seriously strain the health system, he says. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"We should be worried," says Dr., an infectious disease specialist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital."I don't necessarily think it's run-for-the-hills worried. But we need to be worried."
, who leads influenza epidemiology and prevention for the CDC."We can expect a flu season this year — for sure."that the flu is already starting to spread in parts of the south, such as Texas. And experts caution very young kids may be especially at risk this year. , assistant professor of medicine and allergy and infectious diseases and an adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington."We know that schools are really the places where influenza spreads. They're really considered the drivers of transmission," Chu says."They'll be the spreaders. They will then take it home to the parents. The parents will then take it to the workplace.
So far it looks like this year's flu vaccines are a good match with the circulating strains and so should provide effective protection.
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