Schaffner is a co-author, along with Dr. Christine Thomas, an epidemic intelligence service officer at the CDC who works with the Tennessee Department of Health.
Their report focused on 4,626 people in Tennessee who got a flu test in mid-November. Flu, researchers found, spiked early and hit children the hardest. Children were twice as likely as adults to test positive, and they tended to be sicker, especially if they were infected with several viruses at once, such as the common cold on top of flu.from earlier this week found that children hospitalized with COVID-19 had more severe symptoms if they also had another virus.
“If you get a double infection, it tends to make you a tad sicker, you’re apt to stay in the hospital a little longer,” Schaffner said. “I do suspect that we will have more bumps in the road this respiratory viral season,” Passaretti said. She was not involved with the new study.
It never started. Check historic levels
“The threat isn’t over”…. So much fear mongering. Time to move on.
Shut. Up.
Just stop. Seriously. Aren’t you embarrassed?
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