But there is no guarantee that the Northern Hemisphere will have two epidemics as its own flu season looms while the coronavirus is still rampant.
“This may be one of the worst seasons we’ve had of a public exercise with COVID and the flu.But it can also be one of the most productive flu seasons we’ve ever had,” said Dr Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.U.S., they told The Associated Press.
U.S. fitness officials are in the process of being able to do so. But it’s not the first time They are pressuring Americans to receive a record number of flu shots this fall, so hospitals may not be defeated in a twindemic duel.
It also becomes transparent that dressing in masks, avoiding crowds and keeping the distance are protections that “are not express for COVID.They’ll be paintings for any respiratory virus,” Redfield said.
The proof: South Africa regularly reports widespread flu during the winter months in the southern hemisphere, May through August. This year, tests conducted through the country’s National Institute of Communicable Diseases found almost none, which is unprecedented.
School closures, public meetings, and calls to wear masks and hand washes have “reversed the flu,” dr.Cheryl Cohen, director of the high school’s breathing program.
This only meant lives stored from the annual cost of the flu, however, “it freed up the ability of our hospitals to treat patients with COVID-19,” Cohen added.
In Australia, the National Department of Health reported only 36 laboratory-confirmed influenza-related deaths between January and mid-August, to more than 480 at the same time last year.
“The most likely and maximum is social estating,” said Dr Robert Booy, an infectious disease expert at the University of Sydney.
Coronavirus is guilty of approximately 24 million infections and more than 810,000 deaths worldwide in the first 8 months of this year alone. A general year of influenza can lead hospitals around the world to treat several million more serious diseases in addition to the COVID-19 accident..
In February and March, when the globalization of the new virus had just been recognized, many countries in the southern hemisphere were in a double situation, even when they locked themselves up to fight the coronavirus, made a massive effort to more last-minute influenza.Vaccines.
“We run many more flu shots, like 4 times more,” said Jaco Havenga, a pharmacist who works at Mays Chemist, a pharmacy on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
Locks in some countries have been more effective than in others in stopping the spread of coronavirus So why would the flu have subsided even if COVID-19 was still on the rise?
“It is transparent that the surveillance required to succeed against COVID is high,” Redfield said of the CDC.”This virus is one of the most infectious viruses we’ve ever seen.”
This is partly because 40% of other people with COVID-19 have no symptoms but can spread the infection, he said.
The flu is gone, a World Health Organization report warned earlier this month.While “in general, influenza activity has been reported at lower levels than expected by this time of year,” it has revealed that sporadic cases are reported.
In addition, some others who had flu in the south may have simply crouched at home and not seen a doctor because the coronavirus spread, WHO added.
But foreign flu experts say that keeping schools closed (young people are the drivers of the spread of the flu) and that they have obviously helped strict regulations on masks and estating.
“We have no definitive evidence, however, the logical explanation is that what they are doing to detect the spread of (coronavirus) is also doing a very, very clever task against the flu,” said Richard Webby of St.Children’s. Research Hospital.Jude, which is part of a WHO committee that tracks the progression of influenza.
By contrast, the United States and Europe have imposed coronavirus regulations that are almost as restrictive as some of their southern neighbors and, in many cases, are reopening schools and loosening estnging regulations even when COVID-19 is still spreading, and the Near rapidly approaching the colder months that favor the spread of the flu.
The US CDC has not been able to do that. But it’s not the first time They are calling for a record flu vaccinations, preferably until October.Redfield’s purpose is for at least 65% of adults to be empused; only about half.
The U.S. expects more than 190 million doses of the flu vaccine, about 20 million more than last year.States are encouraged to review the flu vaccine and other artistic concepts to vaccinate others and avoid crowds.
To one extent, Massachusetts made flu vaccination mandatory for all students, from elementary to high school, this year.As a general rule, only some physical care staff members face employment mandates for the flu vaccine.
In the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is also calling for flu vaccination.
To be clear, the flu vaccine only protects against the flu; it would probably not decrease the chances of getting the coronavirus.COVID-19 vaccines are still experimental and several applicants are entering the latest tests to see if they work.
But for the coverage that opposes coronaviruses, Redfield continues to insist that vigilantes dressed in masks, keep their distance, avoid crowds, and wash their hands.
“Once those mitigation steps are avoided, viral pathogens take a few weeks to get back to where they were,” he said.
While the United States has resisted masks, maximum states now have some mask requirements, either through state orders issued through governors or city and county regulations.
Meanwhile, the countries where the flu season ends are tracking to see if the northern hemisphere is taking into account the lessons learned.