Infectionist Malyshev urged Russians to wear masks again because of the flu

As infectious disease specialist Nikolai Malyshev explained, we have lost the habit of banal influenza epidemics over the two years of the coronavirus pandemic, but this lesson may be useful to us today.

What happened during the pandemic? We were protecting ourselves from covid and at the same time protecting ourselves from other respiratory diseases, so the situation was better. We need to do everything now that we did during the pandemic.

It’s time to put on masks again, especially when traveling on public transport. At the first sign of a cold, you should stay at home, you should not risk infecting others. Patients should be isolated. The same rules as with coronavirus,” Malyshev said.

He added that according to clinical signs, it can be quite difficult to make a diagnosis, at first glance it is easy to confuse influenza and coronavirus, but the treatment will be different. The infectious disease specialist also recalled the importance of influenza vaccination. Vaccination protects not only those who are vaccinated, but also those around them.

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