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Old 09-14-2020, 06:06 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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I am going on record that our flu season will be unusually mild this year.

Many people have built up immunities with the COVID episode.
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Old 09-14-2020, 07:19 PM
 
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I am going on record that our flu season will be unusually mild this year.

Many people have built up immunities with the COVID episode.
Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 does not confer immunity to influenza virus. They are unrelated, from different virus families.

I am hopeful flu season will be less severe as more people are getting vaccinated against flu (so if the vaccine is a good match, that helps) and people are more conscientious about behaviors that help prevent flu (physical distancing and hand washing).
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Old 09-14-2020, 07:22 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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^^^ I agree.
The flu might be milder just because we still wear masks and try to maintain social distance, but there is no relation between simple flu and Coronavirus.
COVID-19 is caused by infection with a new coronavirus and flu is caused by infection with influenza viruses.
Another difference is that the flu can be treated with antiviral drugs. No antiviral drugs are currently approved to treat Covid.
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Old 09-14-2020, 07:49 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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We may have MORE confirmed flu cases since we're testing so much. However, like Elnina said, with wearing masks, which is a proven way to keep yourself safe, it could go the other way. I'll be getting my flu shot sooner rather then later.
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Old 09-15-2020, 03:51 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Sorry, I didn't give all my reasons.

Every flu season, simply washing you hands and not touching your face prevents many cases.

I have already gotten my flu shot. Asked which strains it was protecting against, th pharmacists did not know.
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Old 09-15-2020, 04:24 AM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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Most flu vaccines in the United States protect against four different flu viruses (“quadrivalent”); an influenza A (H1N1) virus, an influenza A (H3N2) virus, and two influenza B viruses.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/keyfacts.htm
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Old 09-15-2020, 04:54 AM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 does not confer immunity to influenza virus. They are unrelated, from different virus families.

I am hopeful flu season will be less severe as more people are getting vaccinated against flu (so if the vaccine is a good match, that helps) and people are more conscientious about behaviors that help prevent flu (physical distancing and hand washing).
Indications are you are correct, but it depends on maintaining those mitigation measures.

The tail end of the US 2019 - 2020 flu season bottomed out in early 2020. Week 13 began March 23.

https://www.advisory.com/daily-brief.../05/flu-update

The flu season in Australia was markedly curtailed.

https://www.newscientist.com/article...irus-measures/

There is also evidence that taking the flu vaccine may reduce the severity and mortality from COVID-19.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....29.20142505v1

In Italy, there is a correlation between flu vaccine uptake in people over age 65 and lower COVID-19 mortality.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...1002/jmv.26120
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Old 09-15-2020, 08:00 AM
 
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Sorry, I didn't give all my reasons.

Every flu season, simply washing you hands and not touching your face prevents many cases.

I have already gotten my flu shot. Asked which strains it was protecting against, th pharmacists did not know.
2020-2021, trivalent (three-component) egg-based vaccines are recommended to contain:

A/Guangdong-Maonan/SWL1536/2019 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus (updated)
A/Hong Kong/2671/2019 (H3N2)-like virus (updated)
B/Washington/02/2019 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus (updated)
Quadrivalent (four-component) egg-based vaccines, which protect against a second lineage of B viruses, are recommended to contain:

the three recommended viruses above, plus B/Phuket/3073/2013-like (Yamagata lineage) virus.
For 2020-2021, cell- or recombinant-based vaccines are recommended to contain:

A/Hawaii/70/2019 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus (updated)
A/Hong Kong/45/2019 (H3N2)-like virus (updated)
B/Washington/02/2019 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus (updated)
B/Phuket/3073/2013-like (Yamagata lineage) virus


Are there any changes to the 2020-2021 Northern Hemisphere vaccines from what was included in this season’s 2019-2020 U.S. flu vaccines?

Yes, this season’s flu vaccines were updated to better match viruses expected to be circulating in the United States.

The egg-based H1N1 vaccine component was updated from an A/Brisbane/02/2018 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus to an A/Guangdong-Maonan/SWL1536/2019 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus.
The cell- or recombinant-based H1N1 vaccine component was updated from an A/Brisbane/02/2018 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus to an A/Hawaii/70/2019 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus.
The egg-based H3N2 vaccine component was updated from an A/Kansas/14/2017 (H3N2)-like virus to an A/Hong Kong/2671/2019 (H3N2)-like virus.
The cell- or recombinant-based H3N2 vaccine component was updated from an A/Kansas/14/2017 (H3N2)-like virus to an A/Hong Kong/45/2019 (H3N2)-like virus.
The B/Victoria lineage vaccine component was updated from a B/Colorado/06/2017 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus to a B/Washington/02/2019 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus.
The B/Yamagata lineage vaccine component was not updated.
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