Influenza is now killing Nova Scotian more than Kovid -19
For the first time since the introduction of the Kovid -19 epidemic, the number of Nova Scotions, who died from Influenza, exceeds the number of Kovid deaths.
Province Latest respiratory clock reportThe 124 Nova Scotion has died of influenza during the 2024-25 respiratory season, which runs from August 25, 2024, and will go up by 29 August 2025. There have been 108 Kovid deaths so far this season.
A infectious disease Dr. Dr. Lisa Barrett stated that the fact that covid causes less deaths than influenza, there is no positive development for the general population.
“Some people have said,” Oh, thank you, we are back back, “he said. “And I like, ‘Okay, now we have found two viruses – not just one – which are still in a really important category to hospitalize, bad lungs and deaths.”
Barrett said that this year’s global flu season was the worst in the last decade.
“Yes, Influenza has taken over from Kovid, but they are both more than what we will like them,” he said.
Dr. Robert Strang, Chief Medical Officer of Nova Scotia’s health, said that Pandemics do not run forever and Kovid -19 have become spatial. He said that it is not surprising that Kovid -19 tops the deaths of Influenza.
“This is what we expect because we return more to a normal respiratory virus season with a mixture of virus,” he said.
While Covid-19 dominated so much discussion in previous years, other respiratory diseases-influenza and respiratory synchronous virus (RSV) did not get much attention especially.
“For some people, we do not have to fear so strongly from Kovid, but we need to be very respectable and take all the respiratory virus seriously,” Strang said.
He is encouraging people to practice the same measures that were promoted during the peak days of the epidemic. This means washing hands, wearing masks, where suitable, staying home and vaccinating during illness.
But, at the later point, fewer people are doing so.
The data provided by the province suggests that 29 percent of the overall population got their flu shots for the 2024-25 season, it was only 18 percent for Kovid -19.
For last year’s campaign, the percentage was 32.8 percent and 22.8 percent respectively.
“These are very effective against stopping the vaccine … serious illness and death,” Strang said. “This is what we should focus on. How do we reduce that number of respiratory virus deaths? And it is through vaccines.”
Strange said that the province would expand the eligibility for the RSV vaccine, to include this decline to 75 and above, whether they live.
