An co-infection of both flu and COVID-19 at the same time. Health care professionals around the world have started reporting cases of patients contracting COVID-19 and influenza simultaneously, a phenomenon dubbed "flurona" that can bring additional risks to those with underlying heal...
heart, legs, or brain are more common in COVID than in flu cases. The illness can also lead to multi-system inflammatory syndrome in which various body parts become inflamed (e.g., the heart, lungs, kidneys, or brain).1
This is helpful because some of thesymptoms are the same, the CDC reiterates, meaning you "cannot tell the difference between flu and COVID-19 by symptoms alone." Cold symptoms Unlike abrupt flu symptoms, the onset of cold symptoms is usually gradual,according to the CDC, and can include: ...
The flu (influenza) and COVID-19 are both respiratory illnesses, and both are contagious, but they are not the same virus. COVID-19 spreads more easily than the flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and can cause more serious illnesses in some people. COVID symptoms don't ...
When you look at the symptoms of the flu, it's fever, cough, sore throat and body aches, which is very similar to COVID and might be really tough to know which one you have, which is why the flu vaccine is being strongly encouraged. The CDC has worked with vaccine ma...
As the cold begins to settle in, so does Flu Season. Given the impact of COVID-19 this year, reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses like flu is critical. It’s more important than ever to be vigilant in protecting ourselves as well as those around
Methods: We linked the WHO flu database (FluNet: containing influenza virological surveillance data) and COVID-19 confirmed cases (Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resources Center) for four countries across the northern (Canada, United States) and southern hemispheres (Australia, Brazil) for the period ...
But how can you tell the difference between the common cold, the flu, and COVID-19? That can be really difficult because COVID-19 can mimic both a simple cold or more of a flu-like illness with fever and body aches. What should someone do if they have cold or flu-like symptoms?
Both the flu and COVID-19 trigger similar reactions in the body, Kwon said. Each illness "sensitizes or revs up theimmune system," triggering inflammatory responses as the body's defense mechanisms try to eradicate the invaders. Both viruses also can cause platelets to become hyperactive, or ...
COVID-19SARS-CoV2Coronaviruses are among the largest group of known positive - sense RNA viruses with a wide range of animal hosts as reservoir. In the last two decades, newly evolved coronaviruses such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) which caused the infamous ...