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Covid and Australian flu, peak around Christmas: differences
According to experts, the two conditions must be distinct, even if in fact the symptoms overlap. The leaves of the next few days are referred to as the stage of maximum spread of infection. According to Fabrizio Brigliasco, a virologist and professor at Milan State University, the peak influenza will be “around the Christmas period, when it will reach 150,000 cases per day, for a seasonal total of 10 million cases on New Year’s Eve.”
Covid hospital admissions are increasing in both departments The two in Intensive treatmentswith cases reduced by 50%, and interest in the flu – known as the Australian flu – which should peak around the holidays, is growing. birthday. Meanwhile, experts issue a warning not to confuse the two diseases, to confuse the symptoms and to treat them inadequately from a pharmacological point of view. With the danger that the coming Christmas holidays will see not only a peak in cases of influenza, but also, as it is feared in the United States, a new wave of Covid
Explains the virologist Frances Broccoliof the University of Milan Bicocca: “The two conditions must be distinguished but instead we see a single treatment aimed at reducing fever and often inCompletely inappropriate use of antibioticsnot true for both Covid and influenza”
“I do The differential diagnosis is very difficult because the symptoms of COVID and influenza are similar But you didn’t even take the test. Instead, it will be sufficient to undergo a rapid antigenic smear to diversify related conditions and treatments. new variantssuch as BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, and at present there are likely to be more cases of Covid-19 than influenza, “the expert continues
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