Prepping for COVID-Flu Triage as Flu Season Begins

October 21, 2020

(Medscape) – The set-up for primary care physicians this winter is looking worrisome. “The worst case is that you have high co-circulation of both SARS-CoV-2 and the flu, and you’re using a lot of the same reagents and supplies for both of those pathogens and you run into supply chain issues or capacity issues at individual laboratories because of testing volume,” Kelly Wroblewski, director of infectious diseases at the Association of Public Health Laboratories, told Medscape Medical News.