“No worse than flu” – CIUSSS honcho
The head of the CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal has put the cat among the hot potatoes with a statement that Covid is no worse than the flu. Dr Lawrence Rosenberg has met resistance from the health minister for saying this, but is sticking to the statement. Meantime, Laval and the Outaouais are turning orange and the Centre-du-Quebec is going from green to yellow.
I’ve seen some items, by the way, about how it would really suck to get flu and Covid at the same time. But the CLSC near me isn’t even taking appointments for a flu shot till mid-October.
walkerp 20:10 on 2020-09-22 Permalink
Local pharmaprix was already booked up for all of November, now making appointments for December.
jeather 20:44 on 2020-09-22 Permalink
Flu shot appointments never open up earlier, they try to time the strongest time for the vaccine for the most active time for the flu. I listened to the doctor’s interview, and he just plain says it’s not worse. He is generally a bad interviewee, I’m not sure why they speak to him regularly.
There is a possibility that the flu season will be weaker, either because no one sees anyone else or because there seems to be some effect of one virus blocking another — this is a very iffy theory, though it seems to work for other diseases, we don’t know if Covid will work that way, and “some effect” is far from “you can only get one at a time”.
Sec V 08:46 on 2020-09-23 Permalink
“Laval and the Outaouais are turning orange and the Centre-du-Quebec is going from green to yellow.”
This happens every year when the leaves change color.