Severe mitigation efforts in the USA to reduce the incidence of COVID-19 infections have led to a massive rise in unemployment, social disruption, and appear to be leading to a severe economic depression. In contrast, no such interventions were regarded as necessary to manage seasonal influenza ...
In the absence of a vaccine, in winter, novel coronavirus COVID-19 will also circulate in parallel with seasonal influenza. Thus far it appears that with the current strains of these two viruses, the clinical outcome of co-infection is not significantly worse than infection with COVID-19 ...
The propensity score used for the weighting was calculated via a logistic regression model predicting COVID-19 versus influenza. The model included 55 prehospitalization covariates, including major variables known to increase the risk for mortality, such as hypertension medications, history of congestive...
Male individuals who had recovered from COVID-19 had coordinately higher innate, influenza-specific plasmablast, and antibody responses after vaccination compared with healthy male individuals and female individuals who had recovered from COVID-19, in part because male recoverees had monocytes with ...
On presentation to the ED, he developed progressive shortness of breath requiring intubation. Chest X-ray was negative other than an incidental finding of bibasilar lung infiltrates versus atelectasis. Testing for influenza A and B wa...
[182,183]. Anaphylaxis can occur after any kind of vaccination and thus is not specific to COVID-19 vaccines. Guillain-Barré syndrome is a rare neurological disorder and is associated with bacterial infection, viral infections, and influenza vaccination. It has also been reported to be higher ...
Liu, Q., Zhou, Y. H. & Yang, Z. Q. The cytokine storm of severe influenza and development of immunomodulatory therapy. , 16–32 (2012). Bhatraju, P. K. et al. Covid-19 in critically ill patients in the seattle region—case series. ...
However, the latter is an illness associated with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea; bacteria and viruses can cause stomach flu but not the influenza viruses. It is a stomach illness, whereas influenza virus infection causes the flu, an illness of the respiratory system. What Causes Flu in Adults...
Although some differences have been observed in cytokine profiles even between influenza A and B, and the cytokine profiles in the peripheral blood are very dynamic in viral infections, the key mediators of cytokine storm are common to both influenza infection and COVID-19. These are IL-6, IL...
In this Perspective, Alon and colleagues discuss how insights into immune cell trafficking during pneumotropic influenza virus infections may inform our understanding of immune cell recruitment to the respiratory tract in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Moreover, they examine the eme...