The health of the United Kingdom, one of the countries most affected by the coronavirus, has noticed an increase in the number of colds these days, which have nothing to do with the Covid-19 pandemic. In Spain, experts already warn of a increased flu and other respiratory viruses if the use of the mask is relaxed.
“We know that many of these viruses, including Covid-19, but also the flu, can be transmitted when we are infected, but we do not have symptoms. Therefore, it is important that we continue with all the safety measures that we have been implementing lately “, explained Isabel Oliver, epidemiologist of the British Health System.
“There is Covid-19 and there is the flu. The two together in one person can be quite catastrophic and can lead to collapse what is the health system “, Julio Jesús Barrientos, a health worker in Oxford, United Kingdom, wanted to add.
Flu vaccination campaigns
The autonomous communities have begun to finalize the details of the flu vaccination campaign, which will begin at the end of this month, October. This time he will have a new difficulty, combine it with the third prick of the Covid-19 vaccine. For this reason, the experts ask for willingness to be vaccinated in a year that is not expected to be the worst, but they do consider that more cases and deaths will be registered than the previous one.
In the 2019-2020 flu season, in Spain, the virus affected a total of 652,400 people. Of all of them, 1,800 had to go through the Intensive Care Units and 3,900 died. In the previous year, the number of deaths from the flu had risen to 6,300.
Unpredictable flu
Since the pandemic broke out, Covid-19 had cornered other respiratory diseases thanks to different tools like ol masksocial distance between people. In Spain, last year, only twelve cases of influenza were isolated throughout the national territory, according to the respiratory infection surveillance system of the Carlos III Health Institute.
The problem is that this year the situation is completely different from the previous year. The coronavirus pandemic is in decline, so a different scenario. For this reason, experts and health workers call on the vaccination against the flu. They fear that flu outbreaks could happen earlier, last longer, and affect more people than usual.
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