Coronavirus and Influenza: Older People
(asked on 23rd March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have modelled the potential co-circulation of COVID-19 and flu among the over 50s in the 2022/23 flu season; and if so, what were the results of that modelling.
This question was answered on 5th April 2022
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is currently undertaking independent flu and COVID-19 models. The UKHSA anticipates there will not be a significant interaction between the two pathogens and it is more likely that coincidental co-infections will occur. The sum of the independent COVID-19 and flu models will therefore represent the overall impact which may be expected.