If you are feeling ill, stay home, and cover your cough or sneeze, and disinfect frequently touched surfaces and objects. With either the flu or COVID-19, t he CDC says the best way to avoid infection is to avoid close contact with people who are sick, avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands, and wash your hands frequently. estimates that influenza has hospitalized between 250k - 440k people in the U.S. Anthony Fauci worries that concern around the #coronavirus is causing people to focus less on the seasonal flu outbreak. Flu activity remains high in most states across the country. And yet each year it kills from to 79, 80,000 on our worst year."Īccording to the CDC, there have been at 26 million reported flu cases this season, along with 250,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths. "We're so used to every year having the seasonal flu that we sort of take it for granted. "The flu is a real and present issue that we are going through right now," Fauci said. "The Flu is a Real and Present Issue"įauci says something the public should be paying more attention to, however, is the flu. Likewise, while most coronaviruses are considered "winter viruses" whose spread decreases with warmer weather, it's not known if that will be the case with this virus. There were reports in Germany that someone was sickened with the virus, and got it from someone who showed no symptoms.
While it's believed to be spread by person-to-person contact, it's not known exactly how contagious it is. The illness is different from other known coronaviruses that generally cause mild illnesses, like the common cold.ĬOVID-19 can have far more severe symptoms, including fever and shortness of breath. chartered planes that will take the Americans from the ship right to Air Force bases in California and Texas, where they will be quarantined.įauci says part of the problem with the novel coronavirus, which the World Health Organization officially named COVID-19 this past week, is that there are unknown issues with the virus. The same will happen to the 380 Americans aboard a cruise ship in Japan that was quarantined because of the virus. to wear surgical masks to protect themselves from #coronavirus. Anthony Fauci says that there is no reason at this point for people in the U.S.
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