A health expert is encouraging Americans to get a flu vaccine this fall, saying that doing so will help mitigate the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic, ABC News reported.
As previously reported by The Inquisitr, health officials are concerned that this winter will bring a so-called “twindemic” of both COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus, and the regular seasonal flu. Both illnesses are spread by similar mechanisms — respiratory droplets — and during the winter months, people spend more time indoors, potentially exposing each other to pathogens. Authorities fear that, as such, COVID-19 cases will surge at the same time that influenza cases start spiking as well.
Dr. Atul Nakhasi, policy adviser for the LA County Department of Health Services, wrote in an op-ed that Americans should get vaccinated against the flu.
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