While COVID cases across Illinois and the Chicago area continue to decrease, health experts including Chicago’s top doctor are beginning to show concern for a potential rise in more a routine virus: Influenza.
The best defense, Arwady said, is getting the flu shot, and sooner rather than later.
"I am concerned that our regular expected flu surge may also come on top of a COVID surge," Arwady said."The hope is that it will not be a crazy new variant." In 2021, things were even worse thanks to the onset of the omicron variant of COVID, with Illinois averaging nearly 33,000 new cases of coronavirus per day during the worse surge of the pandemic.
“The thing I worry about isn’t about whether a surge comes with omicron, but if we don’t get a lot of uptake of the updated vaccine, and we continue to see a lot of mutation, and we have a variant emerge that is really different from anything we’ve seen previously,” she said last month. “That’s what happened last December and January.”
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