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What happens when COVID-19 and influenza collide? Can hospitals handle the strain?

  • Written by Christine Crudo Blackburn, Deputy Director, Pandemic & Biosecurity Policy Program, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
imageThe arrival of flu season will put more pressure on hospitals already facing the coronavirus pandemic.Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images

Flu season is just around the corner, and the United States still hasn’t contained the coronavirus. That sets up an unsettling challenge this fall: how to minimize the impact of the simultaneous...

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