As temperatures started dropping last fall, local health experts were “extremely worried” that the coming flu season might only compound the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.With the virus already weighing heavily on hospitals, Linn County Public Health Clinical Services Branch Supervisor Heather Meador said the county was apprehensive about how the health care system would handle more strain.And health experts weren’t quite sure how the two viruses would interact — if someone already had COVID-19, would he or she have a harder time dealing with the flu, and vice versa?“We had a lot of concerns going into the influenza season,” Meador said.
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Tue, 03/09/2021 - 4:50pm
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