They Caught the Flu, and Never Came Home

Lauren Caggiano had felt sick for days by the time she tested positive for the flu in an emergency room on a February afternoon. Hours later, she was in the intensive care unit. By 4 in the morning, she was on a ventilator. Ms. Caggiano, a paralegal who lived in Oceanside, Calif., doted on her […]

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Flu Cases Are Surging

This flu season has been particularly brutal, and it isn’t showing signs of letting up. Since October, there have been at least 24 million cases in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that there have been as many as 650,000 hospitalizations, which would make it the highest hospitalization level […]

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Influenza A and B: What to Know About Symptoms and Treatments This Flu Season

Each fall, the flu emerges as a formidable force, spreading through the droplets produced when people cough, sneeze or talk, and sometimes hitching a ride to our noses by way of the infected surfaces that we touch. Influenza viruses cause tens of millions of illnesses and thousands of deaths in the United States each year. […]

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Covid Shots May Slightly Raise Stroke Risk in the Oldest Recipients

The Covid vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna may be linked to a slight increase in the risk of stroke when administered along with a high-dose flu vaccine, according to a new analysis by the Food and Drug Administration. The high-dose flu vaccine is usually given to older people, and the risk association is clearest […]

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C.D.C. Advisers to Decide Who Should Receive New Covid Vaccines

Americans may be able to receive the next Covid shots as early as Wednesday, the last of a trifecta of vaccines intended to prevent respiratory infections this fall and winter. On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration authorized updated Covid vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna. A scientific advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control […]

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Can You Get Covid and the Flu at The Same Time?

It is possible to get multiple infections at once. Researchers have found cases of people testing positive for both Covid-19 and the flu since the beginning of the pandemic. While respiratory syncytial virus infections are not as common in adults as they are in children and seniors, it is also possible for someone to have […]

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Why a Coronavirus-Flu ‘Twindemic’ May Never Happen

An intriguing theory may help explain why the flu and Covid-19 never gripped the nation simultaneously — the so-called twindemic that many public health experts had feared. The idea is that it wasn’t just masks, social distancing or other pandemic restrictions that caused flu and other respiratory viruses to fade while the coronavirus reigned, and […]

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Inside the High-Stakes Race to Test the Covid Tests

Researchers also assessed the user-friendliness of each product. “You want to make sure that nothing requires too much force, make sure that it’s easy to grasp, grip,” said Sarah Farmer, managing director of Georgia Tech’s HomeLab. “Let’s streamline it where possible, cut down steps where possible.” Maxim Biomedical, a Maryland-based company that makes a rapid […]

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First, Impressive Vaccines for Covid. Next Up: The Flu.

As the world grapples with Covid-19, influenza isn’t getting much attention these days. But the flu’s global impact is staggering: three million to five million cases of severe illness every year, and up to 650,000 deaths. Every few decades, a new flu strain spills over from animals and leads to a pandemic. The deadly toll […]

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Should People With Immune Problems Get Third Vaccine Doses?

When it came to coronavirus vaccination, the third time was the charm for Esther Jones, a dialysis nurse in rural Oregon. After two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine failed to jolt her immune system into producing antibodies, she sought out a third, this time the Moderna shot. It worked. Blood tests revealed a reasonable antibody […]

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Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Coronavirus Vaccine

A new vaccine for Covid-19 that is entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic. The vaccine, called NVD-HXP-S, is the first in clinical trials to use a new molecular design that is widely expected to create more potent antibodies than the current generation of vaccines. […]

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Emerging Coronavirus Variants May Pose Challenges to Vaccines

The steady drumbeat of reports about new variants of the coronavirus — first in Britain, then in South Africa, Brazil and the United States — have brought a new worry: Will vaccines protect against these altered versions of the virus? The answer so far is yes, several experts said in interviews. But two small new […]

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