Update: As of September 16, 2020, CMS has announced the launch of its 2020 flu season campaign. Learn how to protect yourself this flu season.
Each year, we talk about the importance of flu prevention. This year, we need to shout about it.
Editor's Note: This article originally posted on CipherHealth's website.
The CDC believes it’s likely that flu viruses and the virus that causes COVID-19 will both be spreading this fall and winter.
CDC Director Robert Redfield has advised:
“In November, December, January we’re going to have Covid again, I am pretty confident of that, and unfortunately we’re going to have flu at the same time…The more we can prevent flu from causing hospitalizations, the more we can prevent people with flu from filling up our ICUs, the more probability that there is going to be a hospital bed for people with Covid.” – CDC Director, Robert Redfield
COVID-19 and the flu are not the only challenges taxing our overburdened healthcare workers. Bringing back patients who deferred elective care during the COVID-19 outbreak is essential to avoiding another health crisis in which chronic conditions are untreated and life-threatening illnesses go undiagnosed.
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