A 64-year-old male asked:
can being flu resistant also make one perhaps resistant to the covid-19? we know most people will survive. how is it most people will survive?
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Dr. Ankush Bansal answered
17 years experience Internal Medicine
Flu-resistant?: What is flu-resistant? No one is flu resistant. You may be immunized (by vaccine or previous infection) with a strain of the flu but there are many many strains of the flu. As for COVID-19, flu has nothing to do with it. They are two completed different viruses. It's like comparing cats to dogs. In fact, you can be infected with influenza and COVID-19.
Answered on Apr 6, 2020
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