Fact Check: 'Flurona' Is NOT A New Disease -- It's Slang For Overlapping Flu And COVID-19 Infections
Fact Check
Is "flurona" a new cross-breed virus resulting from combination of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and seasonal influenza? No, that's not true: Flu and SARS-CoV-2 can't combine their DNA to create a new virus, according to a professor of microbiology at the University of Washington. "Flurona" is not a medical term. It's shorthand for a rare condition called co-infection, in which a…