The influenza season is exceptionally long-the wave of corona was not coming

Flu season has been exceptionally long this year, says the HUS Group’s Chief Medical Officer Asko Järvinen.

The epidemic season began calmly. Now, however, it has lasted all winter months and continues. According to Järvinen, the season has been a bit more severe than in a few previous years.

There is no particular praise in the vaccine’s power this year. According to estimates of the early part of the year, it guaranteed about 50 % protection.

« Not the best, but not the worst, » Järvinen describes.

According to Järvinen, the worst peak seems to be behind. Influenza B virus epidemic usually hits the turn of March and April, but is usually calmer than the wave of A-virus.

Coronavirus For some, the situation is somewhat surprising. According to Järvinen, no one is currently in the hospital in the Hus area because of coronal infection.

« One case is, but the patient in question is not in the hospital because of the coronavirus. »

So the expected spring corona wave never came. According to Järvinen, even in the autumn, the disease did not suffer as in previous years.

Due to the start of the pandemic, the hospital has usually ended up in the hospital for patients with corona patients. Now hospitalization has been needed more often to curb influenza, says Järvinen.

Järvinen estimates that the calm corona situation is due to the fact that the virus is largely similar in structure and properties in previous years. So it has not changed as much as before, which is why people’s immunity against the disease is better.

« The virus behaves tired. Maybe the new variations have already been largely invented, » Järvinen ponders.