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Cases of influenza infection have decreased by more than 90%.
Measures taken by countries to combat the coronavirus pandemic have eradicated the incidence of influenza. This was stated on Monday in a briefing by the head of the WHO’s department of pandemic and epidemic diseases, Sylvia Bryand, quoted by TASS.
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“We are monitoring the seasonal incidence of influenza and we can say that we are seeing extremely low circulation in the southern hemisphere,” he said. “There may be various explanations for this, but the most realistic hypothesis is that the measures taken to combat the coronavirus are extremely effective against seasonal flu,” especially in the context of vaccination against the coronavirus.
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“At this stage, however, we can conclude that measures that are effective in combating coronavirus are extremely effective in combating other infectious diseases,” said the expert.
It was previously clear that in 2020, according to a series of studies, the incidence of influenza has decreased by more than 90%. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 42.9 million people became ill in the 2018-2019 flu season alone, of which 647,000 were hospitalized and 61,200 died. For 2017-2019 there are 48.8 million cases, 959 thousand hospitalizations and 79,400 deaths.
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As influenza expert Abraham Palash writes in the 2019 Health Awareness Value of Vaccines report, there are about 1 billion cases of influenza each year worldwide, and this virus causes between 290,000 and 650,000 deaths a year.
Source: “Attention”
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