According to the UK Health Safety Board (UKHSA), people who have the flu and Covid-19 at the same time are “twice as likely to die”.
In winter and virus Moreover, as it draws near, the Health Safety Agency has warned the UK of the risks they still face as Covid-19 has not completely disappeared.
unexpected winter
“I think next winter is uncertain,” said Dr. Jenny Harris, UKHSA director, in front of the microphone Sky News. “This is not a prediction, it is uncertain. But we know that flu cases were at their lowest last year, so immunity and stress are getting lost,’ he explained.
According to Jenny Harries, who said that “in the last five years about 11,000 people have died from the flu”, the disease can have several types this year. And the distribution of this variant of flu with Covid-19 It can be deadly for thousands of people: ‘There is always a risk of getting both [maladies]. And if this were to happen to you, preliminary data suggest that you are twice as likely to die as if you just contracted Covid-19.”
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To protect oneself from these two diseases, the UKHSA director recommends being vaccinated against both Covid-19 and the flu. vaccine developed for this season can protect against four different variants. “But of course we still respect the hygiene rules that we introduced during this Covid outbreak,” he concluded.
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