09-01-2020, 02:20 PM
(09-01-2020, 12:41 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: I heard wear a mask, it MAY help stop the spread. Will getting a flu vaccine MAYBE help stop spread of the flu? My point being, we now know 94% who died from Cov-19 had on average 2.6 underlying major medical conditions like heart disease, Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer and others.
So would the flu colliding with someone getting the virus be more or as deadly possibly as someone with underlying conditions? We know already underlying conditions alone kill virus patients so common sense tells up that group + flu would only make deaths higher.
Definitely.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/index.htm
Here’s a list of medical conditions that put people at increased risk of complications or death as a result of getting the flu when combined with their pre-existing condition.
Edited to add: I misread your question. I think you mean is the flu combined with Covid 19 as deadly as the flu and a high risk medical condition. If that's the case, I can't say definitely. I don't think we have enough experience with Covid 19 to answer your question. My personal opinion, it probably wouldn't make a difference in the young and healthy who have the flu and an asymptomatic or mild case of Covid. Although there is a chance the immune response to the flu might make the immune response to Covid 19 worse and essentially "convert" what would have been a mild case of Covid into a more severe case. In the older and less healthy population I would expect that combination to make the clinical situation worse because they don't have the physiologic reserve to fight off infection like the young or healthy. But, it is still to be determine.
