How are COVID-19 anddeaths from flu 2020infections unique? The speed of transmission is an important reason for determining eligibility between two infections. Compared with COVID-19 illness, infectious diseases have more limited time to converge in the mid-term (the time from contamination to th...
Deaths due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic vary (3-1681 deaths/million and mortality rates 0.71-14.54%) and are far greater in some countries compared to others. This observation led us to perform epidemiological analysis, using data in the public domain, to study the correlation of COVID-...
lessening the harm caused by these viruses is important to prevent deaths and reduce infections. However, many deaths associated with the flu and COVID-19 don't occur at the hand of the virus alone. Instead, it's asecondary bacterial infectionthat is often at the root of the devastating...
Atypical flu seasonusually produces 30 million to 40 million cases of symptomatic disease, between 400,000 and 800,000 hospitalizations and from 20,000 to 50,000 deaths. This prospect, paired with theongoing battle against COVID-19, raises the possibility of a twindemic overwhelming the health ...
Some COVID-19 deaths have been diagnosed as flu-related in the United States, Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday. Redfield made the remarks when responding to a question at a hearing about whether people in the United States dyi...
The 2023-24 flu season was particularly deadly — the CDC reported 205 children died from the disease, the most since the COVID-19 pandemic. CDC officials believe that the total childhood death toll from the flu last year is likely higher because many of those deaths are underreported. ...
"We must do everything we can to ensure as many South Australians as possible are immunized against both COVID-19 and influenza to ease pressure on our hospitals," he said. "The dual challenge of broad community spread of COVID-19 and influenza at the same time during winter threatens to...
So I looked up the stats on the CDC website. They are easy to find, and they are given by age group. Since the flu varies from year to year, I averaged the last-three, year-long flu seasons. And I compared that average to a full year of COVID-19. ...
1. COVID is 1.8 times deadlier than the flu yet people are more likely to get the flu shot than they are the COVID booster. Can you discuss the reasons behind this resistance? (Note that except for changing my age from 78 to 79, this answer is word-for-word from myMarch 11 websit...
There were 200 pediatric flu-related deaths in the 2023-2024 season, compared to the previous high of 199 during the 2019-2022 season. 3 months ago Pediatric emergency doctor shares what should be in your 'flu box' Dr. Meghan Martin, a pediatric emergency physician, shares how parents can ...