COVID-19 is not influenzadoi:10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30577-4Eskild PetersenThe Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle most commonly caused by a virus. Health experts promote COVID-19 vaccination due to its benefits outweighing the mild risks of myocarditis, with most cases from vaccines resolving without severe complications. COVID-19has significantly affected hea...
Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) are respiratory illnesses that can result in similar symptoms. Research has shown that the most common symptoms seen in both illnesses are fever and cough.2 A person can show a range of symptoms, from no symptoms at all to several se...
Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lung tissue. It’s caused by a number of viral infections, such as the influenza (flu) virus or SARS-CoV-2 – the culprit in COVID-19. Bacteria and certain types of fungus can also give rise to pneumonia. With pneumonia, the lungs become inflamed an...
SARS-CoV-2, the agent responsible for the outbreak of COVID-19, is an enveloped virus that utilises its surface glycoprotein spike (S) to bind to the host cell membrane through an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE2) receptor1,2. Most of the efforts to develop therapies and vaccines agains...
The Covid-19 epidemic is a major public health emergency. The virus has spread faster and wider than any other since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, and has proven to be the most difficult to contain. It is both a crisis and a major test for China. The Communist ...
For Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department, Mortality Is 7.9% for COVID-19 (Omicron), 6.0% for RSV, and 2.5% for Influenza CLINICAL QUESTION: What are the comparative mortality rates for adults hospitalized with influenza, COVID-19, or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infectio... Mar...
Whether COVID-19 will join influenza as an infectious disease for which annual vaccination is required isn’t yet known. Although they’re both RNA viruses, “the backdrop is so different,” Baylor said. “We are in a pandemic. We didn’t have a vaccine. This [mRNA vaccines] is new ...
I believe this is a dangerous mindset. The reality is that COVID-19 remains a unique and deadly threat for many people — it is not just another respiratory virus, and should not be treated as such by our leaders. I am the CEO and co-founder of biopharmaceutical InflaRx. But I am als...
A small retrospective study of 85 subjects with COVID-19 identified obesity as a risk factor for admission to ICU with patients requiring increased medical attention [28]. Moreover, in the influenza A subtype H1N1 pandemic, obesity was also strongly associated with a worse disease outcome and de...