Patients with Covid and flu double the risk of dying, say scientists
Source: Guardian
Covid-19 patients who have been hospitalised should also be routinely tested for flu, researchers have said. The call was made after the publication of a paper in the medical journal the Lancet that revealed having both conditions more than doubles the risk of a patient dying.
Scientists also discovered that individuals who had contracted both Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, and influenza viruses were more than four times more likely to require ventilation support and 2.4 times more likely to die than if they just had Covid-19.
We found that the combination of Covid-19 and flu viruses is particularly dangerous, said Professor Kenneth Baillie of Edinburgh University. We expect that Covid-19 will circulate with flu, increasing the chance of co-infections. That is why we should change our testing strategy for Covid-19 patients in hospital and test for flu much more widely.
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We were surprised that the risk of death more than doubled when people were infected by both flu and Covid-19 viruses, said Professor Calum Semple of Liverpool University. It is now very important that people get fully vaccinated and boosted against both viruses, and not leave it until it is too late.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/27/patients-with-covid-and-flu-double-the-risk-of-dying-say-scientists
Botany
(70,449 posts)... C-19. Don't get vaccinated and you then become a possible host to the virus where it can live, mutate,
and infect millions more.
? Why is the republican party pro C-19?
milestogo
(16,829 posts)sooner or later.
Rebl2
(13,471 posts)very true.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)might make a difference in some close elections this year
BumRushDaShow
(128,531 posts)Why should they be "surprised". Both viruses attack the lungs and can cause pneumonia.
ProfessorGAC
(64,877 posts)Seemed like this was completely logical.
Even in both viruses didn't attack the same cells, given the specificity of antibodies, that two separate infections would result.
Sure seems that would further weaken the system, making severe disease more likely.
Not sure why this was a surprise to them, either.