"Corona + flu fear of simultaneous epidemic" U.S. flu vaccine emergency

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free flu vaccination stopped like this, there are quite a few seniors who say that I will get hit quickly, even after paying the money.

The United States, which has the largest number of COVID-19 patients in the world, is also very nervous ahead of the flu season, and it is said that it has secured the largest flu vaccine in history and started distribution because of concerns about the simultaneous outbreak.

Correspondent Kim Jong-won covered it in New York.

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United States, whose deaths from Corona 19 have already exceeded 200,000, and the United States, which has the largest number of coronavirus cases in the world, are tense ahead of the fall and winter flu epidemic.

[Dr. Anthony Pouch/USA Health Center: There is a great deal of concern that as the flu season enters the fall and winter, the two respiratory diseases will go through a terrible epidemic together.

It is influenza (flu) and Corona 19.]

Amid fears that the damage will be out of control if the so-called twin-demic situation in which the coronavirus and flu are spread together, the US health authorities secured the largest flu vaccine ever and started distribution nationwide I did.

The amount of flu vaccine secured by the U.S. government so far is enough to fit 200 million people, and less than half of the total population in the U.S. last year received flu shots. Considering the remainder of last year, it is pointed out that there are too many. .

With the growing demand for flu vaccines in the United States and around the world, pharmaceutical companies have decided to increase flu vaccine production this year by 12 percent from last year.

Meanwhile, some observations are mixed with hope that the flu epidemic will not be as large as expected as the corona crisis continues to regulate social distancing.

In fact, the U.S. health authorities have looked at the cases of countries in the global southern hemisphere, such as South Africa and Australia, who had wintered amid the corona pandemic, and said that the flu incidence rate has decreased significantly thanks to the corona regulation.