How to Avoid a Deadly Mix of Covid-19 and the Flu

There’s some potentially good news for the United States

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog
2 min readAug 17, 2020

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Health experts have expressed concern over what could happen if the Covid-19 pandemic collides with the seasonal flu. The seasonal flu, caused by influenza viruses, is typically widespread in the United States: It’s estimated the viruses have caused between 9.3 million and 49 million…

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Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that