Return of seasonal flu, RSV and other viruses could spell disaster for older Canadians, experts say

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With fewer health care workers to look after the sick, some anticipate this cold and flu season will be especially precarious for older adults

show nearly 300 COVID-19 deaths per week, and more than 6,000 hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients daily – roughly four times the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations a year ago.

“If you require hospitalizations, you’re not just sitting in the bed and then as soon as you finish your infection, you stand up and out the door you go,” he said. The good news is that older Canadians have the highest levels of influenza vaccination uptake in the country, Dr. Bowdish said. And even though COVID-19 outbreaks continue to occur in long-term care, the fatality rate in these facilities has plunged from around 30 per cent early in the pandemic to less than 1 per cent, owing, in large part, to the timing of COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, administered at the beginning of waves to maximize immune protection, she said.

 

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Only the vaccinated ones it’s starting to look like

The seasonal flu comes around every winter. That’s why it’s called the “seasonal” flu. It’s just a fact of life that it poses a risk to old and frail people but it’s no more of a potential disaster than it has ever been. The CDC admits the flu shot has only a marginal efficacy.

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