Health experts warn about the next flu season, which they say will be very severe. Although from the onset of the pandemic to the present, it has been reported in the United States a single case of influenza death Among children, 3.7 million people worldwide have died from infection with the new coronavirus.
In the period 2019-2020, 199 de children from the USA they died of the flu. In 2018-2019, they were reported 144 deaths among children, also caused by the flu season. However, since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, only a few thousand cases of influenza have been reported in the United States, while tens of millions of cases have previously been reported. Only one flu death was recorded in 2020-2021 among American minors.
Influenza cases, significant decreases
“The flu has not been reported anywhere except for reasonable activity in West Africa,” said Richard Webby, a doctor in St. Louis. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
“No one has noticed it, neither in countries with total restrictions, nor in countries without restrictions, nor in countries that have kept the pandemic under control effectively, nor in countries that have not,” he added.
The reasons why the flu seems to have disappeared are not very clear, he writes CNN.
The coronavirus outperformed the flu virus, say some voices in Health. Others believe that the restrictions taken on the background of the coronavirus pandemic have also paid off in terms of the spread of the flu virus.
What awaits us after the pandemic
Richard Webby and other medical experts have expressed concern that the flu season, which will begin in the fall, will result in many casualties.
“(Will follow – no.) The most severe flu season I’ve ever seen,” Webby said.
“When the flu wave returns, the situation will be out of the ordinary,” said Aubree Gordon, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
A risk factor is the relaxation among the population, according to experts. Tired of restrictive measures, people will crowd into restaurants, bars, no longer wear masks, and all these things will significantly contribute to the spread of influenza virus.
“I am confident that eliminating coronavirus control, returning children to school, and resuming travel, especially internationally, will be the perfect setting for the spread of all respiratory viruses,” Lynette Brammer, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Domestic, told CNN. Influence Surveillance Team.
Allison Aiello, a specialist in the study of the spread of infectious diseases at the University of North Carolina, says: “When a person has not been ill for a certain period of time, they may later have more severe symptoms.”
“I do not know what to expect. We are waiting and we will see “, said Lynette Brammer, Health specialist, referring to the new flu wave that would spread globally.
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