I don’t think it’s possible for doctors to convince their patients to opt for the COVID booster in the same way that they do for the flu shot. For reasons I discussed at length in my answer to #1, the two decisions don’t pose the same questions. For most people who get an ann...
Because the availability of the vaccine in North America is limited in the summer season, those needing the vaccine for travel purposes should discuss the best option for flu prevention, vaccine versus carrying of antiviral medications, with their doctor. Those who are at high risk of getting com...
The rise of the highly lethal severe acute respiratory syndrome-2 (SARS-2) as corona virus 2019 (COVID-19) reminded us of the history of other pandemics that happened in the last century (Spanish flu) and stayed in the current century, which include Severe-Acute-Respiratory-Syndrome (SARS)...
The International Crisis Group, in a report entitled “The Covid-19 Pandemic and Deadly Conflict” (ICG, 2020), recognized that “the long- and short-term consequences for deadly conflict are less well understood”. Severalregional studieshave aimed to explore the possible implications of the CO...
In most cases, the testing facility should let you know a time frame for getting your coronavirus results back, but that can vary from hours to even a week or longer, especially ifconfusion over flulike versus coronavirus-like symptomscausestest result delays. Here's what we ...
Dr Jonathan Quick, head of pandemic response at the Rockefeller Foundation, said: “You have 50m to 100m Americans a year getting the sniffles and, given the impact of Covid versus flu, you’re going to want to distinguish between the two. That’s going to be a huge challenge.” ...
Enrichment plot shows the normalized enrichment scores (NES) of selected gene sets of the different comparisons (GSEA FDR < 0.05; Methods; see Supplementary Table 3 for all significant gene sets with FDR < 0.05). The NES are plotted separately for COVR-F versus HC females (HC-F),...
(74%), worried (72%), or isolated (64%) while fewer reported feeling resilient (36%) or hopeful (33%) in the last 30 days. Men who lived alone were significantly more likely to report feeling isolated compared to men who live with another adult in the household (70% versus 61%,p...
This could be attributed to the fact that individuals associate the name of such a rate with the closest mild disease they are accustomed to; namely, a flu. Being informed about the infection fatality rate of COVID-19 significantly reduces lock-down behavioural decisions. This could possibly be...
Total number of tweets including COVID-19 versus flu 101 401 Mitigation measuresa Vaccines 62 61.4% 186 46.4% Tests 7 6.9% 7 1.7% Ventilation 4 4.0% 1 0.2% Isolate/stay home when sick 3 3.0% 4 1.0% Masks 2 2.0% 2 0.5% Hand hygiene 1 1.0% 5 1.2% Cover your cough 1 1.0% ...