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NPR: Flu season looms and scientists wonder how flu and COVID-19 might mix

By NPR.

Published Sept. 4, 2020 at 5:09 am

Handout picture by Peru's Ministry of Health of a nurse looking at the lungs x-ray of 90 year-old Valerio Santa Cruz, who was discharged from the Dos de Mayo State Hospital in Lima on April 15, 2020.

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With the annual flu season about to start, it’s still unclear exactly how influenza virus will interact with the coronavirus if a person has both viruses. Doctors around the world have seen some patients who tested positive for both influenza virus and the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.