‘Flurona’: Florida Hospitals Seeing Kids Testing Positive For Both COVDI & Flu

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MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) – Florida hospitals are seeing kids coming successful and investigating affirmative for some the flu and COVID-19.

It’s being called “flurona” and it’s concerning doctors.

“There is present some precise precocious influenza enactment and precise precocious COVID activity, determination is the enactment that idiosyncratic volition beryllium infected with both,” Nadav Davidovitch, manager of the School of Public Health astatine Ben-Gurion University successful Israel, told CNN connected Tuesday.

Davidovitch added, “I don’t deliberation this is going to beryllium a communal situation, but that’s thing to consider.”

Israel confirmed its archetypal lawsuit of the alleged flurona past Thursday. It was identified successful an unvaccinated large woman. She was aboriginal released and is present successful bully condition.

According to the World Health Organization, symptoms see cough, fever, sore throat, musculus aches and fatigue.

“Being infected with COVID-19 and the flu astatine the aforesaid clip could beryllium “catastrophic to your immune system,” Dr. Adrian Burrowes, a household medicine doc and adjunct prof of household medicine astatine the University of Central Florida, told CNN successful September.

In the Florida cases, immoderate children younger than 5 look to beryllium showing the much important symptoms.

“I bash judge you’re going to spot coinfection with flu and coronavirus. And I bash judge you’re going to spot a higher complaint of mortality arsenic a effect of that,” Burrowes said astatine the time.

With the Omicron variant spreading similar it is, doctors are disquieted astir the imaginable strain the flu and coronavirus could enactment connected wellness attraction systems — particularly during the wintertime months.

Doctors accidental vaccines are your champion defence against this flurona.

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