Can you have flu or cold and CORONAVIRUS at the same time?
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Anonymous
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Short answer, Yes.
Lion answer.. here, a science of it in the research paper. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022327v2 Highlights: In the 316 patients with multiple respiratory pathogens, 104 were positive for 2019-nCov and 6/104 had co-infection with coronavirus (3/104), influenza A virus (2/104), rhinovirus (2/104), and influenza A H3N2 (1/104); the remaining 212 patients had influenza A virus (11/202), influenza A H3N2 (11/202), rhinovirus (10/202), respiratory syncytial virus (7/202), influenza B virus (6/202), metapneumovirus (4/202), and coronavirus (2/202). Importantly, 5.8% of 2019-nCoV infected and 18.4% of non-2019-nCoV-infected patients had other pathogen infections. It is important to treat combined infections and perform rapid screening to avoid cross-contamination of patients. A test that quickly and simultaneously screens as many pathogens as possible is needed. |
Anonymous
| It took me until I was 30 to understand that infections and diseases didn’t politely line up like enemies in a kung fu movie to take their turn. |
Anonymous
| This can be a reason for miss diagnosis in the absence of testing. |
Anonymous
| I've had the flu and strep at the same time. |
Anonymous
That is a lot for a system to handle. |
Anonymous
Thank you for this. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| Many people get this on the top of the cold or flu and have no idea. |
Anonymous
| How many Coronavirus threads are you going to start, OP? |
Anonymous
Is there a limit? I start only the important ones. |