SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus coinfection among patients with severe acute respiratory infection during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: a hospital-based descriptive study.
Zubair AkhtarMd Ariful IslamMohammad Abdul AleemSyeda Mah-E-MuneerM Kaousar AhmmedProbir K GhoshMustafizur RahmanMohammed Ziaur RahmanMariya Kibtiya SumiyaMd Mahfuzur RahmanTahmina ShirinA S M AlamgirSayera BanuMahmudur RahmanFahmida ChowdhuryPublished in: BMJ open (2021)
Our findings suggest that coinfection with SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus was not very common and had less disease severity considering mortality in Bangladesh. There was no circulating influenza virus during the influenza peak season during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Future studies are warranted for further exploration.