Posts Tagged ‘coronavirus’
My Reaction to COVID-19 as a Mother Whose Daughter Was on a Ventilator Due to Flu
Written by Families Fighting Flu Treasurer, Jennifer Miller. Read her daughter’s flu story here. When I first began to hear about patients’ experiences being hospitalized with COVID-19, I had an uneasy feeling that this new virus was similar to the flu virus that almost took my daughter’s life. While flu and COVID-19 are different in…
Read MoreCOVID-19 vs. Flu: How Do They Compare?
The 2019-2020 flu season in the U.S. has set records for flu-related hospitalizations and pediatric deaths, but now we’re also dealing with a pandemic of a new (novel) coronavirus, called COVID-19. While both are viruses, influenza (flu) and COVID-19 are very different in some respects. How are these viruses defined? COVID-19: Coronaviruses are a…
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