Today, it is quite possible to get sick with coronavirus and flu at the same time, says Natalia Pshenichnaya, a representative of Rospotrebnadzor.
Epidemiologist Pshenichnaya reported that diseases, which are a combination of the most active seasonal infections – influenza and COVID-19. They mainly affect people who do not have strong immunity, including children.
“More often, such cases occur in people with weakened immune systems, including young children and the elderly, in whom these viruses can stay and multiply in the respiratory tract for a long time,” Pshenichnaya explained in the RIA Novosti cometer.
The doctor stressed that concurrent illness with coronavirus and influenza can be extremely dangerous due to its consequences. In particular, this increases the risk that there will be a protracted and complex viral pneumonia with the prospect of a fatal outcome.
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The epidemiologist added that it is possible to determine infection with two infections at the same time only by testing – there are no specific external symptoms of it, the sick ones show only various signs characteristic of respiratory diseases.
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