With all the focus on coronavirus, let’s not forget the other respiratory viruses.

[2greys]

With coronaviruses taking over our news feeds – and lives – you may be fooled into thinking it’s the only virus affecting humans at the moment. But it’s important to remember that there are many viruses, especially respiratory viruses, that regularly infect us. These viruses range from the mildly annoying, such as those that cause the common cold, to the potentially deadly, such as influenza.

Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, scientists around the world are still working hard on these viruses, to find treatments and vaccines to improve our quality of life.

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[AngieB72]

Hopefully as people follow social distancing, hand hygiene and mask wearing these cases will reduce too. The uptake of the flu jab this Autumn has significantly increased too. This may all lead to a small silver lining in the gloomy clouds we have above us now.

[2greys]

My hope is that with all the resources and researchers being devoted to Coronavirus, will have piqued interest in the many other respiratory diseases and their research will take a bit of a leap forward once the pandemic has subsided.

[GeorgeI in reply to 2greys]

and hopefully more people will take up the flu jab every year as well to help protect others, and maybe we can get to the point where people can afford to take time off work and not spread flu, covid etc as they need to pay the bills. Alas I fear that will take an awful lot of pushing for.