Signs are a little bit different with the milder variant and most people have reported suffering with cold-like symptoms - but some have also reported skin rashes. While the NHS still lists a new persistent cough, a high temperature and a loss of taste and smell as the main symptoms of Covid, experts say you should also look out for skin rashes.
A string of hugely positive studies show Omicron IS milder than other strains, with the first official UK report revealing the risk of hospitalisation is 50 to 70 per cent lower than with Delta.
Covid booster jabs protect against Omicron and offer the best chance to get through the pandemic, health officials have repeatedly said. The Sun's Jabs Army campaign is helping get the vital extra vaccines in Brits' arms to ward off the need for any new restrictions.
It can show up in the form of raised bumps and is very itchy - it can often start with intense itchy palms or soles. The flu and Covid are both respiratory viruses transmitted via droplets and aerosols spread by coughing, sneezing, talking, singing and breathing. How serious is flurona? Flu and Covid can both be fatal, especially for older people or those at higher risk due to health conditions. USA Today reports the Texas child was not hospitalized and is recovering at home.
Their ages and other details were not disclosed. Flu cases were greatly reduced last winter due to Covid restrictions including mask use and social distancing, but this flu season may be different. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Minus Related Pages. Other Flu Questions. What is influenza flu? When is flu season? What is the treatment? Flu complications What are emergency warning signs of flu sickness?
Flu Symptoms Influenza flu can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. Know the common symptoms of flu. Cold vs Flu. You should not wait for flu activity to be rising or high in your community to get a flu vaccine. September and October are generally good times to be vaccinated and ideally, everyone should be vaccinated before the end of October.
While flu activity may be low in your community now, it could begin increasing at any time. Remember, after you are vaccinated, your body takes about two weeks to develop antibodies that protect against flu. Ideally, you should get vaccinated against flu by the end of October.
First, CDC is adding a surveillance component that will track laboratory-confirmed influenza in long-term care facilities. Second, CDC also is adding another surveillance system that will track flu hospitalizations in the United States. Hospitals in all 50 states and U. The detailed list of reported data elements are provided here external icon. This weekly estimate was suspended for the influenza season because the ongoing COVID pandemic impacted the data systems used to generate those estimates.
After discussions with public health partners during the summer of , the decision was made to permanently retire this surveillance component due in part to the fact that the systems used to determine the level of spread remain significantly altered and a measure of geographic spread was not necessary anymore given improvements in national influenza surveillance systems in recent years.
These improvements include more testing, new surveillance system components, and presenting more data at the state level and sub-state level. More information on flu surveillance methodology and these updates is available online.
About additional providers were enrolled in the ILINet system, which will now capture approximately 2 million patient visits each week during the season. CDC also has recently begun working with a new network of emergency departments on a surveillance system that should be functional later in the season.
This network will provide laboratory, symptom, diagnosis, past medical history and disposition information for patients who present to the emergency department for an acute respiratory illness. Visit the National Flu Vaccination Dashboard for more information.
These data will be updated weekly or monthly, depending on the data source. All data are preliminary and may be updated during the season as new data become available. Flu vaccination coverage among children is assessed through the National Immunization Survey-Flu NIS-Flu , which provides weekly flu vaccination coverage estimates for children 6 months—17 years old. NIS-Flu is a national random-digit-dialed cellular telephone survey of households conducted during the flu season October-June.
Of note, because these estimates are based on data from nine integrated health care systems, they may not be representative of all pregnant persons in the U. Internet panel surveys of adults , health care personnel , and pregnant persons are also used. Click here for vaccination coverage estimates from past flu season. CDC will continue to provide end-of-season estimates of flu vaccination coverage from these data sources. CDC continues to explore other sources of data to provide national and jurisdiction level vaccination data.
Flu and COVID are both contagious respiratory illnesses, but they are caused by different viruses. Because some symptoms of flu and COVID are similar, people may need to be tested to tell what virus is causing their illness. In general, COVID seems to spread more easily than flu and causes more serious illnesses in some people. Compared with people who have flu infections, people who have COVID can take longer to show symptoms and be contagious for longer. Relaxed COVID mitigation measures such as stay-at-home orders, or mask mandates may result in an increase in flu activity during the upcoming — flu season.
Common respiratory viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus RSV and human coronaviruses not SARS-CoV-2 did not spread as much as usual during the flu season as in past seasons.
Health experts are still studying how common this is. Some of the symptoms of flu and COVID are similar , making it hard to tell the difference between them based on symptoms alone. We do know that people can be infected with flu viruses and the virus that causes COVID at the same time. Your health care professional may order a test to help confirm whether you have flu or COVID or some other illness.
Testing for these viruses at the same time gives public health officials important information about how flu and COVID are spreading and what prevention steps people should take. These tests also help public health laboratories save time and testing materials, and possibly return test results faster.
More information for laboratories is available. Flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness, hospitalization and death in addition to other important benefits. There is no evidence that getting a flu vaccination raises your risk of getting sick from COVID or any other coronavirus. Common human coronaviruses usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses, like the common cold.
Health care professionals may have different practices for diagnosing and treating flu during the COVID pandemic, such as wearing masks in a health care setting or offering telemedicine. If you have flu symptoms and are at higher risk of serious flu complications , you should call your health care professional as soon as possible to tell them about your symptoms.
They may decide to treat you with flu antiviral medications. When broken down by age groups, cumulative flu-associated hospitalization rates and COVIDassociated hospitalization rates among children vary. Notably, flu-associated hospitalizations for the season were exceedingly low, with a rate of 0. Notably, during the season, prevention measures such as school closures and mask-wearing were in place.
These prevention measures likely contributed to reduced numbers of hospitalizations for both diseases.
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