flu Archives

Specialty care, advance planning help to meet challenges of flu, COVID, and RSV ‘tripledemic’

December 16, 2022

To ease the stress on hospitals and specialty care, Kaiser Permanente’s national infectious disease leader urges everyone to get the flu vaccine and COVID booster.

PermanenteDocs Chat on the ‘tripledemic’: RSV, the flu, and COVID

October 10, 2022

Learn more about the threat of a tripledemic of RSV, the flu, and COVID this winter in this PermanenteDocs Chat with Matthew Daley, MD, pediatrician with Colorado Permanente Medical Group.

PermanenteDocs Chat on flu season and fighting vaccine fatigue

October 7, 2022

Register to attend During the last two years, clinicians have had to approach the traditional flu season in untraditional ways because of COVID-19. This year is no different as people move out of the pandemic, questions remain among patients about…

Paul Thottingal, MD, quoted in TIME story on differences between COVID-19 and influenza

December 17, 2020

Health experts say COVID-19 is much more dangerous than the seasonal flu, citing death rates and strain on hospitals.

COVID-19 precautions help blunt flu impacts, Imelda Dacones, MD, tells Wall Street Journal

December 17, 2020

The president and CEO of Northwest Permanente says the lighter flu season is conserving resources for more-severe illnesses and other medical issues.

Flu season presents new challenges for physicians on COVID-19 front lines

November 30, 2020

Permanente emergency management and infectious disease specialists play a key role as flu season and COVID-19 converge to create the threat of a “twindemic.”