What Is ‘Flurona’? What to Know About Co-Infections of Covid-19 and the Flu
The Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2022
The word flurona has gained popularity as a way to describe the condition of testing positive for both Covid-19 and the flu at the same time. “This is not a new entity. We should not be hung up on these labels,” said Dr. Janak Patel, director of the division of infectious disease and immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where three patients have tested positive for both diseases. “We have seen virus co-infections all the time.”