Fauci says public health measures to curb coronavirus spread could dampen flu season

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The forthcoming flu season could complicate the nation's response to the coronavirus, but mask wearing and social distancing could help, Dr. Anthony Fauci said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci warned on Thursday that the forthcoming influenza season could complicate the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S.Public health measures like wearing a mask and avoiding close contact with others could help prevent the forthcoming influenza season from complicating the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic, White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Thursday.

Health officials will soon face a "diagnostic challenge" as the coronavirus overlaps with the Northern Hemisphere's flu season, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventiontypically peaks between December and February, since the symptoms of both diseases are very similar, he warned. The flu can kill between 12,000 and 61,000 people and hospitalize up to 810,000 people in the U.S. every year, Fauci said.

"Steps to fight the flu and Covid-19 overlap greatly," Fauci said Thursday. "We don't want those two diseases together."in mid-September found that the flu season in the Southern Hemisphere between April and July was far more subdued compared with previous years. Data from Australia, Chile and South Africa found that only .06% of more than 83,000 collected specimens returned positive, far lower than the near 14% rate in previous years.

 

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I just had a glass of cherry juice healthy

All he wants is lockdowns lol

Really going out on a limb there Dr. Fauci....brave predicition.

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