Coronavirus deaths may include aggravated influenza. According to Gadin.Net, this was reported by Vitaly Zverev, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, virologist, director of the Mechnikov Vaccine and Serum Research Institute. According to the expert, against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have stopped fearing the flu, although the disease is no less dangerous than the coronavirus.
Thus, the death rate from this respiratory disease is one of the highest in the world. "For example, 30,000 to 40,000 people die during the seasonal flu epidemic in the United States. People with diabetes, cardiovascular disease and kidney problems are at special risk. Infection with the flu at the same time as COVID-19 can aggravate the patient's condition, "he said. Zverev believes that many patients died of coronavirus due to complications of the flu. However, in the confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19, doctors do not examine the patient for the flu, and because there are no laboratory diagnoses, nothing is said about it. "It is impossible that a flu case will not be registered within a year," the doctor added.
However, he said he believed the number of flu infections this year would be lower than in previous years. "Usually, the flu epidemic comes from the east. Now the borders are closed. " According to the doctor, because the flu is not asymptomatic as COVID-19, the person immediately realizes that he is sick, isolates himself and infects fewer people. Zverev recently stressed that the best protection against COVID-19 and influenza is vaccination