[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Dr. Darren Markland, an intensive care physician at the Royal Alex, however, does not believe the flu and COVID-19 will be a double hit on the healthcare system.“I don’t think it’ll be any worse.
It’s going to be COVID, that’ll be the issue in the fall,” he said.Markland said the same interventions that control COVID-19 control influenza.“When we quarantine people for COVID, our flu incidents went almost to zero.
It’s a package deal,” he said.Smith said it is possible to get both viruses at the same time; she said that COVID-19 is unique in that the virus has high viral loads early on in the illness and people are able to transmit when they are in the presymptomatic.