The Ministry of Health comes today with a new very important information for the citizens of the whole country, and it is of course about a clarification for information that has been circulating in the online environment for some time, and which of course are not true in any way.
The Ministry of Health says that the flu vaccine does not favor infection with the new Coronavirus, and to the same extent it does not protect against it, and this is because the viruses are different, and the vaccine protects us against the old one, not against the new one.
"People at increased risk for the disease COVID-19 are largely the same as in the case of the flu: the elderly and people with chronic diseases, with the exception of children.
A British media story was misquoted and turned into fake news. There is no scientific data showing any link between the new coronavirus and the flu vaccine.
It's easy to see why: the flu vaccine targets a different virus, the flu, while the coronavirus is a virus with a different structure.
However, in the context of the coronavirus epidemic where hospitals can become overburdened, influenza vaccination can be useful because it reduces the number of complicated cases of influenza that would require hospitalization, and patients with COVID-19 can be detected more effectively."
People at increased risk for COVID-19 are largely the same as for the flu: older people…
Published by Ministry of Health - Romania pe Wednesday, March 25, 2020
