Coronavirus vs Flu (Influenza)

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today we’re going to talk about the coronavirus vs. flu differences and similarities.

Flu vs. coronavirus symptoms:

Influenza symptoms:

• Aches

• Fatigue

• Chills

• Headaches

Coronavirus symptoms:

• Shortness of breath

• Difficulty breathing

The flu and the coronavirus share some symptoms, such as:

• Fever

• Dry cough

• Respiratory symptoms

Both the flu and the coronavirus can be transmitted the same way. A few ways they can be transmitted are:

• Sneezing

• Coughing

• Contact

Coronavirus vs. flu onset:

• The flu comes on very quickly, often between one and two days.

• The coronavirus symptoms come on more gradually between three to seven days.

Coronavirus vs. flu death rates:

Flu deaths:

• Typically occur from secondary bacterial pneumonia and heart attacks.

Coronavirus deaths:

• Typically occur from ARDS

Coronavirus vs. flu—Whose at risk?

• The flu virus targets the elderly, people with a weak immune system, people with a chronic health problem, children, and pregnant women.

• The coronavirus targets the elderly and people with pre-existing health problems.

Coronavirus vs. flu recent CDC estimates (October 2019-March 7th 2020):

Influenza in the USA alone:

• 51 million infections

• 24 million medical visits

• 670,000 hospitalizations

• 55,000 deaths

• Worldwide - 250,000-500,000 deaths

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Let's talk about some unique differences between the influenza virus, the flu, and the
0:49.6	COVID-19, which is the coronavirus.
0:52.3	What are the differences? What are the similarities?
0:54.4	Now let's first talk about the symptoms. With the flu virus you have more aciness,
0:58.8	fatigue, chills, and headaches. Now you're also going to get those symptoms over here too but not as severe.
1:05.3	What's unique about the coronavirus is that you're going to get more shortness of breath
1:09.4	and difficulty breathing. Both of these viruses will present with fever, dry cough, respiratory
1:16.2	symptoms and there's no difference between the transmission. It's transmitted the
1:21.1	same through sneezing, coughing, in contact.
1:24.5	Now with the flu virus, it comes faster, abruptly, between one and two days.
1:29.5	With the COVID-19, the symptoms are a little more gradual between three to seven days.
1:35.7	Now the deaths from the flu usually occur, not all the time, from secondary bacterial
1:41.1	pneumonia and heart attacks.
1:44.0	Now with the coronavirus, the deaths are mainly from something called
1:48.0	Ards, acute respiratory distress syndrome. This is the respiratory condition where the lungs
1:55.4	fill up with fluid and it makes it almost impossible to breathe. This condition
2:00.3	was also very common in the Spanish flu of 1918. condition was the
2:05.0	the fact that they not only had arts,
2:10.0	but they also took massive doses of aspirin and they didn't know the toxicity back then and that just made things a lot worse.
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