COVID 19

 

What You Need to Know About COVID-19 and Flu

              

Every winter is a bit of a roulette wheel when it comes to influenza. Flu vaccines work but aren’t 100% effective in preventing disease, so it’s always a challenge convincing people to get their flu shots. And while the symptoms are generally bearable, infections can become more severe and even deadly among people who are older or who have underlying health conditions. Last flu season, even though experts considered it a relatively mild year, about 400,000 people in the U.S. were hospitalized and 22,000 people died from the flu.

This winter, the influenza virus has a rival—the coronavirus fueling the COVID-19 pandemic—and health officials are anticipating a showdown that could have dire consequences for the health of millions. Both diseases are caused by viruses that spread with abandon from person to person through sneezes, coughs, and respiratory droplets during close contact. But while researchers know quite a bit about the influenza virus, the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is very much a black box, and they can only guess what will happen when the two pathogens collide throughout the world.

              

Why is it dangerous to have flu and COVID-19 viruses around at the same time?

A double whammy of flu and SARS-CoV-2 infections this winter could be devastating for public health, as the colder weather brings people into closer contact with each other in confined spaces indoors. “What I worry about is that both viruses can cause serious respiratory illness,” says Dr. David Chokshi, health commissioner for New York City. “In the same way that COVID-19 often gets to the point where someone has to be hospitalized to support their breathing or needs to be in the ICU with a breathing tube or ventilator, unfortunately, we see that in the most severe cases of influenza as well. What we worry about is that happening at the same time and really stressing the capacity of our hospitals.”

            Stay safe by taking some simple precautions, such as physical distancing, wearing a mask, especially when distancing cannot be maintained, keeping rooms well ventilated, avoiding crowds and close contact, regularly cleaning your hands, and coughing into a bent elbow or tissue. 

 How long does it take to develop symptoms? 

 The time from exposure to COVID-19 to the moment when symptoms begin is, on average, 5-6 days and can range from 1-14 days. This is why people who have been exposed to the virus are advised to remain at home and stay away from others, for 14 days, to prevent the spread of the virus, especially where testing is not easily available.   

How COVID-19 Fractured Medical Aid Delivery

                         COVID-19 has fundamentally changed our understanding of many aspects of health care and offers us a different lens through which to view medical humanitarianism. The pandemic has had a significant impact on medical aid; going beyond the obvious financial implications of an economic crisis and extending to personnel, supplies, and disease control.

Foreign-aid budget cuts, due to the devastating economic impact of the pandemic, have created a massive funding deficit. The United Nations’ global COVID-19 humanitarian response plan is projected to cost 10.3 billion U.S dollars, of which only a fraction has been pledged so far. In the U.S. alone, funding for global health has mostly flattened since 2010, and the current administration’s proposed budget for 2021 aims to cut global health funding to its lowest levels since the fiscal year 2008. The funding that does exist is suffering from delays in allocation that could be critically damaging in a crisis of this magnitude. Similarly, in the U.K. the global aid budget is expected to decrease by £2.9bn this year secondary to the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Overall aid commitments from the largest government donors were $16.9 billion, which is significantly lower than the $23.9 billion within the same period last year.

     

     Covid 19 highly effected in the world that changed human lifestyle and influenced in a man body. we have to pray for a new world without any coronavirus and flu.