Tag: Influenza

Some Brits say they are suffering from 'super colds', with flu immunity having weakened following months of closures and isolation.

The Chief Executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency says Covid may no longer be the "most significant" threat to health, especially given the impact of lockdowns and social distancing on immunity to seasonal flu.

Brits are complaining about their 'worst cold ever', with scientists saying that the decline in flu immunity during long, continued lockdowns could be a bigger problem this winter than Covid.

Flu vaccines could be less effective this year due to the total focus on Covid and the drop in global shipments of influenza surveillance samples over the past year of lockdowns.

The number of weekly deaths in England and Wales for the w/e March 19th was the lowest since 2014, according to David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters.

Why has the ONS produced a graph comparing COVID-19 to an apparently random group of infectious diseases that doesn't include flu or other big killers?