Most of us are probably coming back to work and school next week, after a lot of people travelling around the globe. Quite some people around me have been sick/starring to get sick.
Those sneezing, runny nose, fever stuffs. It could be flu. It could be covid. It could be something else. I saw that it made the news headline of some countries.
How bad is it in your country?
25 comments
I havent heard anything about covid for a while. And the flu is also here every winter, not unusual.
Well I’m sick, which is nothing new since I literally _always_ get sick after Christmas. I’ve called out for work in the first week of January for the past three years. I’m kinda hoping they send a check-doctor now so they can verify that I’m actually sick and I’m not just trying to extend my vacation.
We’ve just brought back wearing masks in hospital settings (as in had the email 5pm on NYE)
I’ve stopped searching info on Covid after the height of the pandemic, because I was starting to get paranoid. I did hear that some Covid wards were re-opened, but I have no idea what the rates of infection are. In any case it’s not really talked about. There has definitely been a strong flu (or possibly more than one) going around for a couple months tho but nobody is getting tested anymore. I think we collectively decided to ignore it.
It still holiday season in Spain, but emergencies are full of flu and stomach flu, and still some COVID, because it is still dangerous for old and sickly people.
I’ve caught my first cold in around 5 years. It’s weird.
There was a lot of cold, flu, and Covid going around in December. But there are always these winter epidemics. And now that most people have some immunity to Covid, it has just merged with the general snotty season. Covid still feels like the cold from hell, but it is more managable.
The authorities say that numbers are better this year, and that it seems to be a flu year.
Well covid seems to have evolved to be just another type of flu…
So, yeah, there is a bit of a outbreak of flu-like that hits the upper resporatory, I was hit by it 2x this month (1 week in late Nov and another week in Christmas week). Both times I had severe throat ache and did fever the 1st day. Both times, the doc prescribed antibiotics, anti-inflamatory nasal spray and inhalations, both times I was much better by the 1st day of the antibiotics, both times I was completely fine by the 7th day (the antibiotics were for 7 days).
I head in the news that there is an outbreak and that its noticeable in the hospitals, but nothing that cant be handled.
I work in a hospital.
Covid is quite common, mostly just a simple virosis, but here and there it gets more serious and some people, old and sick usually, also die.
Flu season is yet to come, I think.
Non issue. About 30k still suffer from long Covid effects. What is worrying the high number of RS virus infections among babies.
I think no covid here atm but at the end of the year plenty of flu-like symptoms on a good amount of people
Norway: The authorities are expecting a rise in covid numbers in a month or two of I remember correctly, but also stated that many are more,or,less immune. No extra recommendations or protocols.
It was actually on the local radio news here in Scania just yesterday that there is currently a very sharp increase in the number of cases of seasonal flu here. That’s quite normal for this time of year though, as January and February is the usual peak of flu season. And yeah, it will probably get a lot worse as people go back to school and work after the long holidays over Christmas, New Year and Twelfth Night. On top of that, we have now actually also gotten some cold temperatures and snow even here in the far south of Sweden, so that might help the spread even further.
Covid? That feels like old news, to be honest.
A quick news search on Google only gave me one result from the last few weeks. The rest were research reports and health service information.
What has drawn the most attention recently is the annual outbreak of Winter Vomiting Disease, which began about three weeks ago.
you always have flu seasons but covid i feel is very much under control. i mean sure there are still cases and minor outbreaks but not like back in 2020/2021
The flu cases started rising two weeks ago and Covid about a week ago. Apparently Covid isn’t very seasonal, though, there are always some cases and they rise from time to time
There are a lot of RS and Norovirus right now, too
Anecdotally, fairly high (but then it is winter…)
Family dinner over Christmas – table for 13 booked, 4 too sick to attend, 3 made it but ill or recovering. I got same symptoms four days later. Covid-like but milder tested negative.
Local NHS hospital has re-introduced compulsory masks.
My entire family has some kind of lurgy this week. It’s a generalised cold/flu/fever type deal. Influenza? Rhinovirus? COVID? Who cares, really?
Pretty normal for this time of year. Nationally, I don’t think there’s anything out of the ordinary.
No idea, hasn’t been mentioned in the media since Feb. 24th, 2022.
It is a continuous flu season now. very few test for covid, some test for flu’s however.
Old people are encouraged to get the flu shot.
COVID is still rather common, but basically treated like any other influenza now.
But overall it’s like everyone got the flu right now, at least those with children. I got infected by family over the Christmas days too, must be something stronger because normally I just don’t get ill beyond a sniffle.
There were in December a few hospitals that have forbidden visitations due to rise of COVID cases. Also I hear a lot of people after Xmas parties having some sort of COVID infections but a weird kind – low temperature and lot of coughing.
I had my first positiv covid test just before Christmas. Got it from my son’s daycare
Czech: flu and cold season is pretty severe here in Prague at least. Whole family’s coughing and sneezing. I’ve been wearing a mask in public to try and keep from infecting everyone around me but it seems like most everyone’s sick already anyhow! Covid’s not a huge issue, most people are vaccinated
I work in one of the biggest hospitals in Sweden, and according to our internal information channels, the COVID situation is stable on a pretty low level. Flu cases are going up, as are RS virus cases, both of which are expected. Flu season is a little bit later than usual here this year, so they’re expected to keep rising for a while.