Podcast 611: Flu Season in the time of COVID

<p><strong>Contributor: Chris Holmes, MD</strong></p> <p><strong>Educational Pearls:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">During a typical flu season positive rates of flu tests run around ~20%</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Surveillance data from Australia, South Africa, and Chile showed remarkably low rates of flu during their typical high season - only 51 total cases were reported</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">This overlapped with COVID, meaning extensive social distancing and other measures likely have benefit with flu</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><em>Editor’s note:</em></strong> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">at 35 cases, we are over half way there!</span></em></p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p><a href= "https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937a6.htm"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-size: 10pt;">https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937a6.htm</span></span></a></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href= "https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm</span></a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Summarized by Jackson Roos, MS4 | Edited by Erik Verzemnieks, MD</span></em></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Emergency Medical Minute is excited to announce that we are now offering</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">AMA PRA Category 1 credits™</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">via online course modules. To access these and for more information, visit our website at</span> <a href= "http://www.emergencymedicalminute.com/cme-courses"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">www.emergencymedicalminute.com/cme-courses/</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and create an account. </span></span></p> <p><br /> <br /></p>