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Covid and flu are both surging and there’s no peak in sight. While the U.S. is only a few weeks into winter, this year’s respiratory virus season is already looking different than last year.
Moderna is preparing to test Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tougher vaccine policies with a combination flu-COVID ...
Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the Healgen Scientific's Rapid Check COVID-19/Flu A&B Antigen Test for home use without a prescription, which makes it easier for ...
While COVID-19 and flu remain at unusually low levels nationwide, rates of at least other germs that spread through coughs and sneezes remain elevated.
Covid-19 has some similarities to the flu, but it’s not the same, said Dr. Arnold Monto, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan and acting chair of the US Food and Drug ...
Nationally, since the start of October, more than 49,000 people have been reported to have died of COVID; by contrast, flu has resulted in at least 25,000 fatalities over the same time period, ...
The first symptom of the flu was most likely to be a cough while for COVID-19 it was fever. COVID-19 can also be distinguished by the loss of taste and smell. However, symptoms vary from person to ...
But with so few flu cases last year, there’s not much data on how many people had the flu and Covid-19 simultaneously. “Health experts are still studying how common this is ,” the CDC said.
Covid and flu shots can be safely given at the same time, and according to a small new study, doing so may even confer benefits. Findings presented Monday at the Vaccines Summit Boston, an annual ...
The new COVID-flu shot combines the company's updated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, called mRNA-1283, and its newly developed flu vaccine, mRNA-1010. As of yet, there is no FDA-approved flu shot that ...
In fact, new research suggests that getting coinfections—not just of COVID-19 and flu, but of many one-two punches of pathogens—may be far more common than we thought.