Well being: the flu epidemic is prone to be vital through the winter of twenty-two/23

Contaminations resulting from Covid-19 are on the rise once more in France, Friday, October 7. However one other epidemic is already pointing the tip of its nostril: that of the flu. “Yearly, we have a look at what is occurring within the southern hemisphere, the place the seasons are reversed with respect to us, to anticipate what may occur within the northern hemisphere (…). Nonetheless, there was certainly a bigger epidemic by way of the variety of circumstances.says journalist and physician Damien Masqueradecurrent on the set of 12/13. “There have nonetheless been greater than 224,000 sufferers, 1,784 hospitalizations and 305 deaths from the flu this 12 months in Australia“, he continues.

For Damian Masqueradeso you must get vaccinated towards the flu “even when the effectiveness of flu vaccines will not be extraordinary: often between 40 and 60%“. That is nonetheless vital, “particularly because the eighth wave of Covid additionally weakens people who find themselves already weak, and the 2 epidemics will overlap“, he recollects. In France, this 12 months, “61% of individuals aged 65 and over intend to get vaccinated. It is encouraging. The marketing campaign begins on October 18“, concludes Damien Masquerade.