As winter approaches, we will have a mixture of COVID-19 and flu season. How can we prepare for flu season in the time of coronavirus?

CGTN spoke to Dr. Richard Webby about the difference between flu and coronavirus symptoms and why the flu vaccine is more important this year.

Dr. Webby is a member of the faculty in the Department of Infectious Diseases at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Director of World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds.

Dr. Webby said: “Technically, the flu can turn into COVID-19. There have been a number of reports of people that have actually been infected with both influenza and COVID.”

He also added: “This year, I think it’s incredibly important for people to go out and get the flu shot even if they’ve never had it before.”

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