Flu Season in Our Home … Corona-like Symptoms and CRP Overcrowding

The Al-Akhbar newspaper wrote under the headline “The flu season has arrived … the pressure on PCR testing is getting stronger”: “With the sudden change in weather, the flu season arrived yesterday,” officially ” winter, and with it the “seasonal flu season.” So, starting today, theoretically. It will be difficult for clinicians to differentiate clinically between influenza symptoms and “Corona” symptoms, forcing them to resort to further analysis and laboratory tests to arrive at the desired diagnosis. To correct the diagnosis and proper treatment.

A member of the National Infectious Diseases Committee, Abd al-Rahman al-Bizri explained to “Al-Akhbar” that both viruses belong to respiratory viruses, and they have similar symptoms such as cough, headache, heat and shortness of breath, “but in the case of Covid-19, the patient loses the sense of smell and taste, in addition to the fact that the Corona virus is not a virus Seasonality, which makes it take another curve from the rest of the viruses ”, indicating the need for the patient to perform two PCR tests, one for influenza and the second for “Corona,” which means “double the cost in tough economic conditions.”

Al-Bizri indicated that there is the option of resorting to multiple PCR tests, which “can diagnose different types of viruses. But the experience in this field is still limited and the information obtained on this technology is not entirely safe ”.
A major importer of PCR tests confirmed that various screening kits “are available in limited quantities in some major hospitals … and the majority of currently approved PCR tests are exclusively related to the diagnosis of Covid 19 disease.” Read the full article Press here.