JawaPos.com – Countries with 4 seasons will soon welcome the arrival of winter. Regarding this, it is predicted that the Covid-19 and flu cases will infect them simultaneously.
A recent study from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), revealed that the Corona virus is five times more deadly than the flu even after being hospitalized. In the study, researchers compared complications from Covid-19 and flu using data from Veterans Health Administration hospitals across the US.
The study included data from nearly 4,000 Covid-19 patients and 5,000 flu patients. The results revealed that 21 percent of Covid-19 patients died while in hospital. Meanwhile, flu patients are only 4 percent.
Covid-19 patients were also found to more than double the risk of being admitted to an intensive care unit, and their length of stay was almost three times as long. And, Covid-19 patients are at a higher risk for 17 serious health complications, including pneumonia, respiratory failure and blood clots.
“Compared with influenza patients, patients with Covid-19 had a risk of more than five times the hospital death rate and roughly twice the risk of being admitted to the ICU and length of stay in the hospital. In addition, the risk is higher for 17 cases of acute, respiratory complications, cardiovascular, hematological, neurological, kidney, and others, “said the CDC as quoted from the press release. Mirror.
Racial and ethnic differences in the percentage of complications among patients with Covid-19 were also found to indicate possible respiratory, neurological, and renal complications, as well as for sepsis. To make matters worse, in winter, many people worry about how to distinguish between the common cold and Covid-19 symptoms. The reason is, some of the symptoms look similar.
Meanwhile, the chief medical officer at Doctorlink, Ben Littlewood-Hilson, said that a cold is a big sign that someone is suffering from the flu. Meanwhile, those affected by Covid-19 have a more dominant cough.
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