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A California resident concurrently has Covid-19 and the flu, officers have confirmed, elevating fears {that a} “twin-demic” is on the way in which this winter.

Solano County Division of Well being on Thursday confirmed {that a} affected person had been recognized with each infections.

Well being chiefs didn’t reveal any private particulars in regards to the affected person apart from that she is a girl over the age of 20, works within the healthcare sector, has no underlying well being situations and has since recovered.

Bela Matyas, the Solano County well being officer, mentioned: “This can be a very clear indication of the potential for this to happen.

“We now have flu in our neighborhood on the similar time we now have COVID …contracting both illness might weaken your immune system and make you extra inclined to the opposite illness.”

It was not instantly clear the place or how the lady turned in poor health with each Covid and the flu.

As a result of coronavirus is a brand new an infection, it’s not but recognized how contracting it and the flu on the similar impacts the physique. Medical doctors are urging people who find themselves eligible for a flu jab to get one.

Scientists and infectious illness consultants have for months been involved in regards to the prospect of the Covid-19 pandemic converging with flu season as winter approaches.

“It definitely can’t be good to be contaminated with each and it might be a larger problem to the one who has each infections, and that would make the outcomes worse,” mentioned John Swartzberg, an infectious illness skilled at Berkeley Faculty of Public Well being.

“So we should always do every little thing we will to forestall infections.”

The twin an infection got here in per week when file ranges of latest coronavirus instances had been reported within the US.

Some 85,000 instances had been logged on 23 October – the best day by day complete because the pandemic struck in March.

On Friday that file was damaged when virtually 100,000 new infections had been reported, pushing the general variety of instances over 9 million.

Some 230,000 deaths have been recorded throughout the nation.

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