'But this year, we’re actually seeing an interplay between both the influenza virus and the COVID virus.”
There has been a “sharp increase” in the number of flu and COVID cases since early December, the national lead for the HSE’s COVID Vaccination Programme has said.
“But this year, we’re actually seeing an interplay between both the influenza virus and the COVID virus.” Pat Kenny himself recently took a few days off work because of COVID and while he said he did not have it “bad”, he added that it “still wasn’t pleasant.”
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