COVID-19 is not influenzadoi:10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30577-4Eskild PetersenThe Lancet Respiratory Medicine
"With the introduction of COVID-19 mitigation measures, we saw a steep decline in influenza cases in the northern hemisphere," says Jovana Stojanovic, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology and the lead author of the paper. "Then we also observed ...
Influenza, or flu(流感), is a type of virus. It spreads from one person to another quickly. When someone who has the flu coughs or sneezes, little droplets from their lungs (肺) spread out into the air. Anyone nearby can get sick. Even a person who touches something with the virus ...
Traditionally, doctors use pulse oximetry, physical analysis, and textbook examples to decide whether to intubate a patient. There are good models for influenza, but COVID-19 models are new and constantly shifting. The digital twin provides a better analytical framework to manage outcomes, Campbell...
Another influenza outbreak – the Hong Kong flu – started to spread from China in 1968. It was caused by a compound virus, which combined the Asian virus from ten years earlier with a form of bird flu. It killed around 1 million people – most of them older than 65. 另一场流感爆发—...
With colder weather approaching in the Northern Hemisphere and people spending more time indoors, the WHO chief warned that the risks for more intense transmission and hospitalization will only increase in the coming months, not only for COVID-19, but for other diseases including influenza. This ...
Obesity Is a Risk Factor for Severe Influenza Virus Infection and COVID-19 in Children doi:10.1093/jpids/piae123influenzaobesitypathogenesispediatricSARS-CoV-2Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases SocietyNoye Ellesandra CBekkering SiroonSng Julian D JBurgner DavidLongmore Danielle KShort Kirsty...
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One of the most consistent co-morbidities associated with worse outcome in COVID-19 patients is diabetes, along with age and cardiovascular disease. Studies on the association of diabetes with other acute respiratory infections, namely SARS, MERS, and Influenza, outline what seems to be an ...
What do the numbers tell us about COVID-19, vaccines, and myocarditis? What Is Myocarditis? Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle most commonly caused by aviruslikeinfluenza, coxsackie, hepatitis, or herpes. Other causes include bacteria, fungi, toxins, chemotherapy, and autoimmune ...