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It’s a nightmare. You develop a fever, lose your sense of taste and smell, and then test positive for COVID-19. You worry you may become short of breath, suffer alone in a hospital room, require a ventilator to breathe. You know there is no cure.
Since November, however, hospitals have offered hope to those at high risk of severe illness from COVID-19. It’s an infusion of monoclonal antibodies an experimental treatment that has kept more than 95% of those who received it out of the hospital.
During a still out-of-control pandemic, that helps to save health care resources such as hospital beds, oxygen and personal protective gear.
Encouraging news from health experts about the flu season in N.J. this winter
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
Experts are predicting this year’s flu season is on track to being an exceptionally mild one.
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In recent months, health officials around the state began preparing for the possibility of a “twin-demic,” a situation in which the state’s healthcare system could be severely stressed while dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in addition to a potential spike in flu cases.
While the coronavirus continues to take its toll on New Jersey, it seems the Garden State will likely be spared the much-feared twin-demic, with experts who spoke with NJ Advance Media now predicting this year’s flu season to be an exceptionally mild one.