Is the Flu more powerful (not more deadly) than Coronavirus?

That my good friend is an excellent question.

Hopefully someone will provide an answer - I'm pretty old myself and likely to die if I catch this beast. I'd much rather take my chances with the flu if this is indeed a scientific possiblity.

I think if you replace your blood with molten radioactive waste, the radiation and heat will deform the virus to render it inert.

Real answer - no. Infected flesh does not recover. You remove infected cells.

Some antiviral treatments do work; we just do not have a vaccine yet.

Ok, infected cells removed.

But if the flu was better equipped at doing the damage in the first place, would the Coronavirus scamper? Or can your body be attacked by multiple viruses at the same time?

I think we literally have no idea on that here though...

34 million AMericans with the flu this year. Last year 80,000 died from the flu. This is a joke.

CoronaCurious wrote:

Ok, infected cells removed.

But if the flu was better equipped at doing the damage in the first place, would the Coronavirus scamper? Or can your body be attacked by multiple viruses at the same time?

I think we literally have no idea on that here though...

I spared any roasting. These questions sound so far off what a knowledgable person would ask, I do not think you should rely on ingenuity over expert recommendation. Despite the politics, most of the medical business in the US follows pragmatic, honest standards.

People routinely have multiple viruses at once. You probably do currently.

A current infection could inhibit cov-2 by increasing your immune response, introducing antigens similar to cov-2 or interfering with activity where cov-2 infects cells.

More commonly, a recent infection will reduce your available immune response.

Sally Vix wrote:

34 million AMericans with the flu this year. Last year 80,000 died from the flu. This is a joke.

shut your mouth. COVID-19 kills 15% of 80+. My grandparents are both 90 years old.

So stfu

justkidding wrote:

More commonly, a recent infection will reduce your available immune response.

This is correct. It would be the same or worse. You need a virus more similar to the Covid-19 to see any benefit from a previous immune response.

get a flu shot. No reason not too. You can avoid the most likely strain for the year and not pass it around.

The fewer people who may need medical care the better if Coronavirus spreads.

Is there any research on the seasonal flu shot and anti-body dependent enhancement making it more likely to catch the flu or similar? Anyone know?

Like this? Read the abstract carefully.

https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5759/rr

science baseD wrote:

Like this? Read the abstract carefully.

https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5759/rr

Antivaxxer argument?

Most of the correlations described in the crock post linked result from high risk people taking both vaccines and tests more often along the same dimensions.

Antivax arguments amount to saying you should not run because in the 0.1% chance you contract some rare disease, the higher muscle mass will exacerbate symptoms by 30%, never mind the 99.9% exercise will improve your health by 300%.

justkidding wrote:

A current infection could inhibit cov-2 by increasing your immune response, introducing antigens similar to cov-2 or interfering with activity where cov-2 infects cells.

This is it dude. This is IT!

Finally some progress on this thread - so maybe not the flu but Coronavirus itself is basically a variation on a common cold virus from what I think I might have read at some point.

So what I think you are saying is that if I could catch not the flu but the cold before Coronavirus got into my body, it would serve almost like a Rocky training montage (Rocky IV has the best one) for my body's defenses and therefore Coronavirus would - to continue the metaphor - be smashed down onto it's back before it had a chance?

Thank - this may well be the key...

Globally there are an estimated 290,000 to 650,000 flu deaths each year. As of today, the death toll from coronavirus is 4000. If no test existed to detect coronavirus, people would most likely carry on business as usual like any flu season.

CoronaCurious wrote:

justkidding wrote:

A current infection could inhibit cov-2 by increasing your immune response, introducing antigens similar to cov-2 or interfering with activity where cov-2 infects cells.

This is it dude. This is IT!

Finally some progress on this thread - so maybe not the flu but Coronavirus itself is basically a variation on a common cold virus from what I think I might have read at some point.

So what I think you are saying is that if I could catch not the flu but the cold before Coronavirus got into my body, it would serve almost like a Rocky training montage (Rocky IV has the best one) for my body's defenses and therefore Coronavirus would - to continue the metaphor - be smashed down onto it's back before it had a chance?

Thank - this may well be the key...

A similar coronavirus, not any coronavirus.

If you want actual advice for how to avoid problems, the most pragmatic move available to someone right now is to ask for HIV drugs. I think you can say you think you might have been exposed or even ask for them in advance for a 'risky' lifestyle.

These block replication of cov-2. So, if you use them early enough in the infection, it should stop it from progressing much.

jk_ wrote:

A similar coronavirus, not any coronavirus.

If you want actual advice for how to avoid problems, the most pragmatic move available to someone right now is to ask for HIV drugs. I think you can say you think you might have been exposed or even ask for them in advance for a 'risky' lifestyle.

These block replication of cov-2. So, if you use them early enough in the infection, it should stop it from progressing much.

Ha ha, a novel approach there my friend! I surely would like to avoid dying from Coronavirus but it would take some serious contemplating if it meant strapping up in leather and joining some debauchery gay nightclub scene and allow myself to be sodomized in order to do so!

Forget the flu.

I've heard the Corona Virus is better with Lyme Disease.