How can the coronary pandemic affect the flu?

The BBC brings in two possible scenarios, one of which is much more desirable than the other.

First, the virus can develop more slowly than usual. This is important because it means that the species coming next year will not be markedly different from those last year, and infections can be relatively easy.

And what's problematic about the flu is that it always develops into something new that we've never seen before. That is why it is really difficult to say in which direction things would evolve if they were just a little different. Things are unpredictable at first, but this could be really good and exciting”, BBC Sarah Cobey, an epidemiologist at the University of Chicago, told the BBC.

Peter Palese, a microbiologist and virus expert The RNA at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York says that if there are fewer viruses, then even fewer mutations will be able to happen.

It's really simple. Ten mutations can be expected for 10,000 infected. Thus, for a thousand infected, only one mutation” can be expected, he said.

Theoretically, anything that affects the amount of virus flowing around must also affect its evolution, even vaccines that are currently available.

If Bill Gates can pay and 95 percent of people agree to vaccinate, I think we would have some kind of immune protection that would lead to another Darwinian selection. On the other hand, only about five percent of the world's population has been vaccinated,” said of the BBC.

However, there is another possibility. In reality, we do not know for certain whether social distance has led to less flu infection worldwide or we have just discovered a smaller number. If not, the evolutionary rate of the virus may remain generally the same.

This means that next year, when social distance is largely abandoned, parts of the world where there are currently fewer flu cases can be seriously hit.

If there is no transmission of other respiratory pathogens, it means that people do not gain immunity from them. I'm worried about what's going to happen to those pathogens after we have the covid-19” vaccine, says Cobey.

It suggests that instead of focusing all efforts on developing vaccines, we should invest in types of prevention and treatment that may be effective against other respiratory pathogens, such as improving hygiene and availability of respiratory devices.

That way we don't have to go back to the beginning after we get COVID-19”, Sarah Cobey said.

On the other hand, Palestine highlights the importance of anti - flu vaccine.

“Even if it doesn't fully protect, it certainly results in a more moderate disease and is quite certain as a vaccine,” is expressed.

But scientists still do not know what happens to people who are infected with the flu and COVID-19 at the same time.

We really don't know. I'm worried it can make the disease worse,” ends Palesse.

In contrast, from the outbreak of the epidemic to the world's present, over 42 million corruption cases have been recorded, and 1.17 million have died, and another 30 million and 500 have been healed, while 9 million cases are active.

So far there is no effective vaccine that will prevent the spread of the disease that erupted for the first time in December of last year in China. Already some of the major vaccines such as Johnson and Johsnon and Astra Zeneca have stopped clinical trials due to side effects. Earlier it was said that the first vaccine is expected in the spring of next year.