Can people get corona and flu at the same time?

The new Corona virus remains the talk of people around the world, and scientists are still searching for answers to many questions related to this pandemic.

As winter approaches, people wonder if the hypothesis of coronavirus infection and influenza together is likely.

CNN noted that in light of doctors’ concern about the Corona virus and influenza, people in the United States must face the possibility of fighting both viruses at the same time.

In this context, Dr. Adrian Burroughs, a family physician in Florida, said that it is definitely possible for a person to become infected with influenza and the Covid-19 virus at the same time, indicating that this matter can be catastrophic for the system. immunological.

And epidemiologist Dr. Sima Yasmine said that infection with one of the two viruses can make a person more vulnerable to infection with the other, noting that infection with influenza and some other respiratory viruses weaken the body and this makes make the patient vulnerable to a second infection.

In a related context, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that corona and influenza can attack the lungs and this can cause pneumonia, fluid in the lungs or respiratory problems.

Each disease can also cause sepsis, heart injury, and inflammation of the heart tissue, brain, or muscles.

Dr. Michael Matthey, a professor of medicine and an intensive care specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, said having the two diseases simultaneously “would increase the risk of long-term effects on either of these devices.”

Here it should be noted that it is too early to know exactly how severe this double infection is, compared to infection with each virus alone.

Matthey noted that he believed the risk of pneumonia would be higher if the body had influenza and the Corona virus, saying, “The two viruses together can definitely be more damaging to the lungs and cause more respiratory problems.”