Head of the Department of Virology of the Russian Academy of Continuing Professional Education of Medicine, MD Elena Malinnikova, said that with influenza, the probability of a severe course of the disease is now higher than with COVID-19, and a flu epidemic is not excluded. This has been reported DEA News”.
According to him, today the World Health Organization (WHO), the community of virologists, bacteriologists, infectious disease specialists, warns of the hidden danger of influenza.
“We are now afraid that the antigenic makeup of the virus will change, this is mainly related to the H3N2 virus, so there may be an epidemic (which) associated with this particular disease,” Malinnikova said. she said.
Anna Safonova, former Physician of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, Product Policy Director, LabQuest Medical Laboratory saidthat current coronavirus mutations do not yet require updating the composition of existing coronavirus vaccines.
the previous day in Russia still 28,982 cases of coronavirus infection.
During the day, 1,790 people with coronavirus infections were hospitalized, 35.2% less than the previous day. In addition, 14,942 patients are reported to have recovered (11.4% less than 13 August). 54 deaths have been confirmed.