Did the seasonal flu disappear with the advent of Covid-19? We wonder what happened to the flu virus with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. This is because in the same period last year, the authorities had a hard time managing the situation, with hundreds of cases confirmed in laboratories.
Did the seasonal flu disappear with the advent of Covid-19?
In Romania, since the beginning of the season, only 4 cases of Flu, of which two cases of type A and two of type B. And this in the conditions in which a year ago, the hospitals reported hundreds of cases and dozens of deaths at national level. Exactly one year ago, the authorities were on alert because the flu virus was spreading throughout the country. We had 993 confirmed flu cases in the lab and 34 deaths. Two years ago, the situation was even worse. We had 120 people who died from the virus and 1500 confirmed.
No case of influenza has been confirmed in Iasi since the beginning of the cold season until today. The people of Iași believe that the sanitary protection measures are effective, and COVID-19 also has positive parts.
Certainly the fact that Romanians have learned to wash much better than before and to be much more careful about their health is a good reason, says a woman from Iași.
People say that in the same period of the past years there were many medical leave granted, and the flu also caused many victims. In addition to protection measures, specialists also noted that vaccination with influenza serum was more dormant by the population.
Throughout this process there has been an inter-epidemic evolution, with a small number of cases that have been identified, and the explanations are quite plausible, in the sense that all the measures taken for SarsCoV-2 have had a positive effect. to prevent the transmission of the flu virus, said Dr. Doina Azoica, a primary care epidemiologist.
As for the symptoms, epidemiologists say that the symptoms of the two types of virus are very similar.
As a clinical symptomatology it is possible to resemble a lot, in terms of strictly clinical diagnosis. But usually when a flu virus infection is suspected, it is tested and specific for the flu virus infection, the doctor added.
As with the virus COVID-19, vulnerable to the flu are people suffering from multiple diseases, the elderly, children aged 6 months and those who are prone to infection from the perspective of the profession.
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