The flu season that wasn’t: Influenza has ‘flickered out’, reports find
Overall seasonal flu activity has remained at lower-than-usual levels in the United States and globally.
Flu Season
Thanks in part to COVID-19 precautions, flu season is off to mild start, CDC expert says
There appears to be an indirect upside to all the mask wearing and social distancing: less flu activity in nursing homes and overall.
Fauci and colleagues: Expect a diagnostic challenge this flu season — and stress vaccine education
A winter featuring flu and COVID-19 may create a diagnostic muddle for clinicians, said NIAID Director Anthony Fauci in a Thursday news conference. There is a pressing need to educate patients about getting flu and pneumonia shots, he and other leading physicians contend.
Flu vaccinations not tied to COVID outcomes, Cleveland Clinic researchers say
Getting vaccinated against influenza will not increase the risk for contracting COVID-19 or the likelihood of severe illness and death from the disease, a new study has shown.
Nearly 12% of adults hospitalized for flu experience an adverse cardiac event
The most common cardiovascular events in these patients are acute heart failure and acute ischemic heart disease, researchers say.
Expert warns: Upcoming flu plus COVID-19 season will be ‘like nothing we’ve seen before’
This year’s looming flu season, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, is going to present a new range of challenges, one of the leading pharmacy quality experts in the country said late last week.
CDC director talks to McKnight’s about flu season, COVID-19 mitigation and nursing home data
Senior Editor Liza Berger spoke with Robert Redfield, M.D., about some of the most pressing issues in the eldercare industry.
Flu season may be ‘devastating,’ officials warn
“The real risk is that we’re going to have two circulating respiratory pathogens at the same time,” says CDC director Robert Redfield, M.D.
CDC director: Agency working to ensure flu vaccine availability
The agency is working with drugmakers to help head off what it says could be an overwhelming wave of flu and COVID-19 infections this fall.
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