Vaccine-makers monitor which flu strains are currently circulating and forecast which are most likely to become the dominant ones during the upcoming flu season. They use that data to produce the yearly flu vaccine, using three or sometimes four of the likeliest strains. Theeffectivenes...
COVID-19 and the flu have a similar disease presentation. They both cause respiratory illness, which presents as a wide range of symptoms—from asymptomatic to a mild to severe illness. Both viruses are transmitted by contact and droplets. As a result, the same public health measures, such a...
For the first time in modern history, the Northern Hemisphere faces the prospect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and a simultaneous epidemic of seasonal influenza. Each causes life-threatening illness and death, especially in older adults, people with chronic diseases, and ...
most people don’t “know” the answers. But unlike with flu shots, for COVID boosters many people have a sense that the experts don’t entirely know the answers either. Plus, the experts seem to disagree about the answers, even as both sides confidently insist they’re right and the ot...
It's important to keep those numbers in perspective, Navi said. Only 0.2% of flu patients in his study had a stroke, compared to 1.6% of COVID-19 patients. "Most people who get COVID-19, including most people who are so sick that they come to the hospital and are admitted to the...
Céline Gounder, a CBS News medical contributor and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, shared what you need to know about protecting yourself from COVID-19, the respiratory illness RSV and the flu — three infections that raised concerns last winter about the threat of a...
Both flu and COVID-19 are associated with an increased risk of bacterial infections like pneumonia. Some also confuse influenza with the term stomach flu. However, the latter is an illness associated with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea; bacteria and viruses can cause stomach flu but not the in...
The FDA haspreviously announcedplans to formally study a potential rare safety issue that was flagged this past season with co-administering the COVID and flu shots in seniors. "People were doing that this year, but we want to have people have even more data to make them feel confident that...
Infections from the new“Scrabble” variantsare increasing,hospitalizations from RSVare skyrocketing at a terrifying pace, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that there areearly increases of seasonal flu activity. “Wearing a high-quality mask…when you’re indoors in public pla...
Pneumonia can be a deadly complication of COVID, the flu, and RSV. What to know about pneumococcal vaccination BY Lindsey Leake October 22, 2024 Health Largest ever global study of COVID vaccines finds small but real link to neurological, blood, heart-related conditions BY Jason Gale an...