Influenza is always unpredictable. Infectious disease experts like to hedge their forecasts with a caution: When you’ve seen one flu season, you’ve s
Influenza is always unpredictable. Infectious disease experts like to hedge their forecasts with a caution: When you’ve seen one flu season, you’ve seen one flu season, reported CNN. But when forecasters try to get a bead on what influenza might have in store for North America in any given winter, they look to countries like Australia and New Zealand, where the season typically runs from April to October, winter months in the Southern Hemisphere. This year, Australia had its worst flu season in five years. Cases peaked about three times higher than the average for that period, and they topped out about two months earlier than they normally do, according to official government surveillance reports. Rates of influenza-like illness have also been higher in New Zealand this year than they have been for the past two years, reported CNN.
The US should take heed, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Bloomberg News. “The Southern Hemisphere has had a pretty bad flu season, and it came on early,” Fauci said. “Influenza, as we all have experienced over many years, can be a serious disease, particularly when you have a bad season.” Fauci said that means the US could see flu make a comebackwhile Covid 19 is still circulating at higher levels. Recent government modeling predicts that Covid 19 will peak again in early December. If that happens, it would be the first winter in which the US has had to contend with those two respiratory viruses circulating together at high levels, something infectious disease experts have cautioned about since the beginning of the pandemic, as reported by CNN.
Watch against contagion
In the last 24 hours 109 new cases of contagion and 0 deaths caused by Covid 19 were reported by State and Health Authorities. Contagion is being watched in Guanajuato and cases of contagion reported are over 100 in the last 24 hours, while there were 0 deaths reported. Authorities maintain the color of activities in the GREEN easing restrictions on activities, both leisure and work.
State Health Authorities insist that Guanajuato should maintain health protection.
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- 800 004 4800 and
- 800 627 2583
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