January 15: Where's the flu? The health unit explains
- Publication
- Kawartha Lakes This Week (Kawartha Lakes, ON), 15 Jan 2021
Description
- Creator
- Whitnall, Catherine, Reporter
- Media Type
- Text
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- As the number of COVID-19 cases continue is accumulate, influenza or the flu seemed oddly absent.
Marianne Rock (the local health unit) and Patti Fitzgerald (Peterborough Public Health) explained why this was the case.
Efforts to reduce COVID-19 and control exposure (such as regular hand washing, social distancing, wearing masks, not going to work while sick, and getting the annual flu shot) all contributed to no cases of the flu or lab-confirmed influenza outbreaks in either health region.
So why no flu but plenty of COVID-19? Because COVID-19 spread more easily than the flu. - Publisher
- Kawartha Media Group
- Place of Publication
- Kawartha Lakes, ON
- Date of Original
- 15 Jan 2021
- Date Of Event
- 15 Jan 2021
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Rock, Marianne ; Fitzgerald, Patti
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
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