![]() It’s the unintended consequence of measures that sought to save lives-social distancing and mask-wearing curbed the spread of flu and RSV in 20. CDC director Rochelle Walensky has confirmed that the flu, RSV, and Covid are putting stress on US hospital systems. The problem goes beyond making everyone feel sluggish and icky. “How high it will go, and how severe it will be, is unfortunately something we have to wait and see,” she says. The high rates of flu-like illness could be an early peak, or an early warning of a monumentally bad season. “This season is truly unprecedented,” says Katelyn Jetelina, who writes Your Local Epidemiologist, a newsletter about infectious disease spread. So if your kids, your coworkers, and everyone you know has been feeling sick, that’s why. It’s the tripledemic that epidemiologists feared-those viruses, with the help of a few other seasonal recurring ones, are working together to fuel weeks of coughing, runny noses, and fevers. ![]() And Covid hospitalizations are rising again. ![]() Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has pushed some children’s hospitals to capacity. Positive tests for the flu in the United States stood at 25 percent in late November, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared to 8 percent at the same time of year in 2019. ![]()
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