Experts are scared of coronavirus-flu dual infections this winter – but it’s already happening now

• Public health authorities in the Bay area confirmed that a patient survived a dual coronavirus-flu infection.
• The patient was between 20 and 65 years of age and works in the “health care realm,” although specific details about the case were not disclosed.
• Health officials are urging people in the US to get flu vaccines, which will provide some protection against dangerous dual infections.

Health experts have warned for months that fall and winter will bring back the regular flu epidemic, and that’s why it was so important to reduce the COVID-19 caseload significantly. The coronavirus-flu convergence, informally called “Twindemic,” can be quite dangerous. COVID-19 doesn’t preclude a person from getting the flu and vice-versa, so the two viruses can co-exist inside the same host. On top of that, health experts are worried about the availability of medical resources to deal with both epidemics. It’s not just the personnel or the PPE, but also the hospital beds. That’s why they recommended that people should get their flu shots this year, so they can at least have a better chance of avoiding one of the two respiratory illnesses.

Dr. Anthony Fauci aimed for a reduction in cases to 10,000 a day going into the fall, but the US never got close to that goal before the virus started surging again. We've now reached a new COVID-19 pandemic peak of over 80,000 daily cases, and there’s no sign the curve will go down anytime soon. Against that backdrop, the first report of a confirmed coronavirus-flu co-infection was just confirmed, and it shouldn’t be surprising at all.

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