Tag: flu
Covid-19, RSV, and flu prevention tips to stay healthy this holiday season
Winter 2020 was the season of Zoom holidays. By 2021, the omicron surge spoiled end-of-year plans. So far, the 2022 holiday season is off to a bump [...]
Avian flu threatens British food staples, from English breakfast to Christmas dinner
Egg shortages could be on the cards as avian flu sweeps through Europe.Sam Mellish / Contributor / Getty ImagesLONDON — The classic English fry-up and [...]
Why flu season is so bad this year
If it seems like everyone around you is getting sick, you're not imagining it. The flu season is hitting the United States unusually early and much ha [...]
Flu hospitalization rate highest in a decade, kids and seniors most at risk
The U.S. is facing the highest flu hospitalization rates in more than a decade with children and the elderly most at risk, according to the Centers fo [...]
Why Covid-19, the flu, and RSV could combine to form a “tri-demic” this winter
It’s not just you or your kids: Cold-and-flu season is off to a particularly nasty start across the United States.
With the country stepping down f [...]
Novavax says vaccine targeting Covid and flu shows promising results in early data
A health worker prepares a dose of the Novavax vaccine as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 2 [...]
U.S. far from normal with Covid deaths much higher than flu: report
Nurse practitioner Deborah Beauplan administers a COVID-19 swab test at a drive-thru testing site set up for Suffolk County, New York.Newsday | Getty [...]
Covid will never become an endemic virus, scientist warns
JaruekChairak | iStock | Getty ImagesCovid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecu [...]
With Covid, we’ll never have a normal flu season again
Even as omicron is surging, the seasonal flu is back: More than 2,500 Americans were admitted to the hospital with influenza in the last week of De [...]
Should we treat Covid like the flu? Europe is starting to think so
People walk in Regent Street, in London.SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty ImagesLONDON — There are growing calls in Europe for Covid-19 to be treated [...]
Rising flu cases threaten hospital capacity as Covid surges into holidays
Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital on August 18, 2021 in Houston, Texas.Br [...]