Covid-19 mixed with flu increases risk of severe illness and death, NIHR

Patients in hospital with both COVID-19 and flu are at much greater risk of severe disease and death, new NIHR-funded and supported research shows. The findings, from a study carried out by the University of Edinburgh, University of Liverpool, Leiden University and Imperial College London, show patients who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19) and influenza at the same time were over four times more likely to require ventilation support and 2.4 times more likely to die than if they only had COVID-19.
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