WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) - As public health officials look to fall and winter, the spectre of a new surge of Covid-19 gives them chills. But there is a scenario they dread even more: a severe flu season, resulting in a 'twindemic'.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - As public health officials look to fall and winter, the spectre of a new surge of Covid-19 gives them chills. But there is a scenario they dread even more: a severe flu season, resulting in a"twindemic".
The concern about a twindemic is so great that officials around the world are pushing the flu shot even before it becomes available in clinics and doctors' offices. Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been imploring people to get the flu shot"so that you could at least blunt the effect of one of those two potential respiratory infections".
In April, one of the few reasons Australia allowed citizens to break the country's strict lockdown was to venture out for their flu shots.
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