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Connecticut hospitals have been seeing a sharp increase in the number of flu cases in the past few weeks.

Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned.

‘Flurona’ is a new term being tossed around to describe an instance when a patient tests positive for both COVID19 and the flu but health experts announced that the concept is nothing new to them. The biggest piece of advice from medical leaders is to avoid panicking due to the tools they have in the arsenal to help with the…

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The U.S. flu season has arrived on schedule after taking a year off

According to a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the current flu vaccines seem to be a bad match for the dominant strain that is circulating this season.

“The emergency department, due to a variety of reasons, is in crisis,” said Yale New Haven Hospital Chief Operating Officer Michael Holmes. He pointed out that 95% of the hospital’s 1,541 licensed beds were full on Friday. “We do have periods of time where we have patients that are waiting in the hallway,” said Holmes. Yale New Haven is not…

With more people coming into the emergency room for care at Yale New Haven Hospital, the hospital is turning part of its parking area into a location for patient care.

Experts say the best time to get a flu shot is by the end of October.

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Experts predict this flu season could be brutal. Here’s what you need to know about flu season and the Covid pandemic, plus when to get the flu vaccine.

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The dramatic decrease in flu cases last year has the potential to dramatically increase cases this year, one expert says.

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Vaccine maker Moderna believes people who received two doses of its COVID-19 vaccine will need a third dose before winter as a booster shot. The company said Thursday it is also working on a single shot that would provide an annual booster for COVID-19, as well as flu and the respiratory condition RSV. “We believe that increased force of infection…

Physicians have warned a resurgence of respiratory viruses could be about to increase pressure on healthcare services.

Now that the state is no longer mandating mask wearing in most places… will we see a return to the common illnesses that used to be issues throughout the year? Doctors tell NBC Connecticut that it is a reality that fewer of us have gotten sick with common seasonal ailments since we started taking precautions to avoid COVID-19.But as...

As more vaccinated people go maskless, doctors say they are seeing a return of more common colds and illnesses.

The mRNA technology used to develop the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine could help create “more potent” seasonal flu shots, Pfizer’s Kathrin Jansen told CNBC.

More than a year after the pandemic started, Covid-19 is still ravaging parts of the world, but now scientists are warning that another virus could be a serious threat in the coming months: influenza. This season, the flu virtually disappeared, with less than 2,000 lab-confirmed cases in the United States to date, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention….