With winter fast approaching, many are wondering how COVID-19 will affect the 2020-2021 influenza season. Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and director of the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group, says while ...
Aug 24, 2020
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An estimated 24,000 to 62,000 people died from the flu in the United States during the 2019-20 flu season. And that was a relatively mild flu season, which typically starts in October and peaks between December and February.
Aug 21, 2020
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Flu season is just around the corner, and the United States still hasn't contained the coronavirus. That sets up an unsettling challenge this fall: how to minimize the impact of the simultaneous spread of COVID-19 and seasonal ...
Aug 21, 2020
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COVID-19 has infected some of Dr. Sonder Crane's youngest patients—the newborn who tested positive because its mother had the coronavirus, the 14-month old who caught it at day care.
Aug 19, 2020
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Bad as it has been these past few months to live with the danger of coronavirus, things are about to get worse. Fall is approaching and with it comes that other respiratory virus that puts thousands of Americans in the hospital ...
Aug 19, 2020
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The flu vaccine did a disappointing job last winter in the U.S., and officials worry that might be a bad sign for the fall.
Jun 25, 2020
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Up to 76 percent of all outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in the United States may be inappropriate, with peak prescribing associated with the flu season. Evidence suggests that influenza vaccines may reduce overall and ...
Jun 10, 2020
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As if the COVID-19 pandemic isn't scary enough, the flu season is not far away. How severe will the flu season be as it converges with the COVID-19 outbreak? What can we do to prepare?
May 29, 2020
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In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump announced that Americans need not worry because the new coronavirus was "like a flu."
May 14, 2020
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A second wave of the novel coronavirus in the US could be even more destructive because it will likely collide with the beginning of flu season, one of the country's top health officials said Tuesday.
Apr 22, 2020
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