Interactions between COVID-19 and other pathogens may change their dynamics. Specifically, this may hinder the modelling of empirical data when the symptoms of both infections are hard to distinguish. We introduce a model coupling the dynamics of COVID-19 and seasonal influenza, simulating cooperation, competition and asymmetric interactions. We find that the coupling synchronizes both infections, with a strong influence on the dynamics of influenza, reducing its time extent to a half.
@article{arxiv.2009.09950,
title = {Coupling between COVID-19 and seasonal influenza leads to synchronization of their dynamics},
author = {Jorge P. Rodríguez and Víctor M. Eguíluz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.09950},
year = {2023}
}