Doctors Give Advice On Preventing COVID-19, Flu Infections This Winter

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Thursday, December 24th 2020, 4:22 pm

By: Ashley Izbicki

Doctors Give Advice On Preventing COVID-19, Flu Infections This Winter

Doctors Give Advice On Preventing COVID-19, Flu Infections This Winter

Flu season has arrived and this year, there’s been a greater concern about the flu with the pandemic.

A Stanford study in April suggested as many as one in five people who have tested positive for COVID-19 were also infected with another virus.

Doctors have offered recommendations to keep families healthy this season.

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