Next up @SuchitraRao3 to tell us what's new with influenza. #COPedsID2020 @COpedsID @ColoradoPHM

Fluvid? Twindemic? What to do about influenza during COVID-19:
-Get your flu shot!
-Get your patients vaccinated!
#COPedsID2020

Southern hemisphere data show that non-pharmaceutical interventions, COVID-19 mitigation strategies dramatically reduced influenza activity. Will we see the same in the US? Remember the public health measures in other countries have been more stringent than here #COPedsID2020

How can you distinguish COVID-19 from influenza? Some important differences in incubation period, but lots of similarities in other features. #COPedsID2020

Bacterial co-infection and pediatric hospitalization rates higher for influenza. Risk factors for co-infection very similar. Both influenza and COVID-19 high risk in infants, COVID-19 higher risk in adolescents as well. #COPedsID2020

Now the sad part: Symptoms are mostly the same, virtually impossible to distinguish between influenza and COVID-19 based on clinical presentation. Means we will likely be doing a lot of testing for COVID-19, influenza or both this winter. #COPedsID2020

2020-2021 influenza vaccine recs:
-everyone >6 months of age should get vaccinated
-every health care interaction=vaccination opportunity
-LAIV*, IIV both ok
*LAIV: hx of severe allergic reaction, asthma, CSF leak, immunecompromise
#COpedsID2020 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/rr/rr6908a1.htm?s_cid=rr6908a1_w

I'll have to sign off for a bit- check in with @andreaprinzi @PedsID_DrSarah @txrdqt @kmess44 @COpedsID for more #COpedsID2020 tweets!