>[Getting flu with Covid doubles risk of death, says UK health chief](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/10/getting-flu-with-covid-makes-you-twice-as-likely-to-die-says-uk-health-chief)
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>People who catch flu and Covid at the same time this winter are twice as likely to die than those who only have coronavirus, according to the UK Health Security Agency chief executive, Dr Jenny Harries.
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>The former deputy chief medical officer for England warned that the UK faces an “uncertain” winter – with both flu and Covid-19 circulating for the first time
This came out back in October, way before Omicron started to pull headlines.
A kind of a ‘wait and see’ attitude seems to be what will be best. Get vaccinated and your boosters
“But significantly they found the risk of reinfection in the current Omicron wave is 2.4 times higher than in the first wave.”
Why do they do this?
2.4 times what?
Is it that hard to put the data into an article? 2.4 times tells us absolutely nothing
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*”The results have been published as a pre-print on the MedRxiv server and have not been peer reviewed.”*
Ah. Okay then.
Edit: ..and then looking on the MedRxiv website for the paper:
*”Caution: Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.”*
You have been botted!! This sub is heavily trolled friend.
Maybe if they keep looking behind the settee cushions they’ll find some more cases of big bad omnicron
Anti-vaxxers: I don’t need a vaccine, I’ll catch it and get natural immunity.
Omicron: Hold my beer
There’s an interesting number of top-level comments in this thread that are posted like they’re in response to another post.
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Pop this reminder in here:
>[Getting flu with Covid doubles risk of death, says UK health chief](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/10/getting-flu-with-covid-makes-you-twice-as-likely-to-die-says-uk-health-chief)
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>People who catch flu and Covid at the same time this winter are twice as likely to die than those who only have coronavirus, according to the UK Health Security Agency chief executive, Dr Jenny Harries.
>
>The former deputy chief medical officer for England warned that the UK faces an “uncertain” winter – with both flu and Covid-19 circulating for the first time
This came out back in October, way before Omicron started to pull headlines.
A kind of a ‘wait and see’ attitude seems to be what will be best. Get vaccinated and your boosters
“But significantly they found the risk of reinfection in the current Omicron wave is 2.4 times higher than in the first wave.”
Why do they do this?
2.4 times what?
Is it that hard to put the data into an article? 2.4 times tells us absolutely nothing
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[deleted]
*”The results have been published as a pre-print on the MedRxiv server and have not been peer reviewed.”*
Ah. Okay then.
Edit: ..and then looking on the MedRxiv website for the paper:
*”Caution: Preprints are preliminary reports of work that have not been certified by peer review. They should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.”*
You have been botted!! This sub is heavily trolled friend.
Maybe if they keep looking behind the settee cushions they’ll find some more cases of big bad omnicron
Anti-vaxxers: I don’t need a vaccine, I’ll catch it and get natural immunity.
Omicron: Hold my beer
There’s an interesting number of top-level comments in this thread that are posted like they’re in response to another post.
But aren’t.