Volume 31, No 5, May 2021

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 31 Issue 5, May 2021: 491-492

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Double insult: flu bug enhances SARS-CoV-2 infectivity

Shan Su , Zezhong Liu , Shibo Jiang^*

Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology (MOE/MOH/CAM), School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Correspondence: Shibo Jiang(shibojiang@fudan.edu.cn)

The continuing COVID-19 pandemic and emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants may cause this disease to transit into endemicity like seasonal flu. In a recent study, Bai et al. reported that preinfection of influenza A virus enhanced SARS-CoV-2 infectivity, calling for the development of a pan-flu-COVID-19 vaccine to combat infection of IAV, SARS-CoV-2, or their coinfection.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-021-00498-6

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