Case study highlights need to test flu patients for COVID-19: doctors

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Doctors in Japan are warning other physicians to be on the lookout for COVID-19 among patients with other respiratory infections as more than one virus can be present at the same time.

, the doctors profiled the case of a 57-year-old Japanese man who worked in customer service at a restaurant.

The doctors note that this case should be an indication to other health-care professionals to check for COVID-19 among patients with other respiratory infections. Studies from New York City and Northern California show 2.1 per cent and 20.7 per cent rates of respiratory infections and COVID-19, respectively. A third study from Wuhan, China shows 4.35 per cent of the COVID-19 patients examined had also been diagnosed with influenza.Soon after her diagnosis, Topp was placed on a ventilator and her family watched as her condition worsened to the point of multiple organ failure.

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