During the 2020-2021 flu season, the seasonal flu was greatly reduced in the US. They say this was due to all the precautions taken for covid.
Now that people know that flu deaths can be greatly reduced, what will be done about it?
From lockdowns to mask-wearing to paid sick leave to better ventilation systems, along with better flu shots, there are a lot of ways to reduce the number of people dying from the flu?
But will people do them or accept the death toll as they have done every year in the past?
Most influenza viruses are constantly evolving (mutating) so I would hazard a guess we are stuck with the blighters in which ever form emerges year to year.
You’re right. I’m going to change the title of this thread to reflect your post. I had thought to do that when I was writing it but forgot when I posted it.
The UK is facing an uncertain winter with the spread of coronavirus and the flu, the head of the Health Security Agency Jenny Harries has said.
People are at “more significant risk of death and of serious illness if they are co-infected” with both viruses, she told the BBC. She said: “It’s a more uncertain year but I certainly would be encouraging everybody to go and get their vaccine.”
More than 40 million people in the UK are being offered a flu jab this year. For the first time this includes all secondary school children up to the age of 16. The over-50s and younger adults with health conditions are also being offered a Covid booster jab this autumn and winter.
Dr Harries, former deputy chief medical officer for England, told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: “This is probably the first season where we will have significant amounts of Covid circulating as well as flu. People’s behaviours have changed, we are mixing more, winter weather is coming along, everybody is going into enclosed spaces.”
She said because of social distancing and other measures during the pandemic the public has not had the flu exposure they usually would, “so people are susceptible”.
Flu kills about 11,000 people on average every winter in England and during the last bad flu winter of 2017-18 the toll was more than double that - with more than 300 deaths a day during the peak.
Research shows those infected with both viruses are more than twice as likely to die as someone with Covid alone.
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