Posted on Jan 9, 2023
RSV recedes and flu peaks as a new COVID variant shoots 'up like a rocket'
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/01/06/ [login to see] /new-covid-omicron-subvariant-spreading-fast-data
As the new year begins and the depths of winter approach, U.S. infectious disease experts monitoring the "tripledemic" stew of viruses that have been plaguing the country say there's good news — and bad.
The good news is the worst appears to be over from the RSV surge that has been making life miserable for many children and their parents. RSV cases have been falling steadily since the end of November, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At the same time, the flu — which also came roaring back this fall after mostly disappearing for the previous two years — looks like it's finally receding in most places, according to the latest data out Friday from the CDC.
"In a couple areas, we're seeing activity increase or plateau," Dr. Shikha Garg, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC, told NPR in an interview Friday. "But in most areas, it's been declining."
The virus posing the biggest threat right now is — you guessed it — the one that causes COVID-19.
As the new year begins and the depths of winter approach, U.S. infectious disease experts monitoring the "tripledemic" stew of viruses that have been plaguing the country say there's good news — and bad.
The good news is the worst appears to be over from the RSV surge that has been making life miserable for many children and their parents. RSV cases have been falling steadily since the end of November, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At the same time, the flu — which also came roaring back this fall after mostly disappearing for the previous two years — looks like it's finally receding in most places, according to the latest data out Friday from the CDC.
"In a couple areas, we're seeing activity increase or plateau," Dr. Shikha Garg, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC, told NPR in an interview Friday. "But in most areas, it's been declining."
The virus posing the biggest threat right now is — you guessed it — the one that causes COVID-19.
RSV recedes and flu peaks as a new COVID variant shoots 'up like a rocket'
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I have no idea how my immunosuppressed child has not gotten sick once yet this season. I'm definitely ok with it - but she hasn't even gotten a cold and she goes to daycare and school. I thought about it - she's been sick less in the 5 years post transplant than she was pre transplant. She was immunocompromised pre transplant - basically due to her shitty kidneys. Post transplant she got hospitalized once 2 years post because she had a fever and they did cultures. She's had nothing more than a cold or a stomach bug in 5 years. Sometimes those take her longer to get over but idk. It just kind of boggles my mind how she's avoided all this stuff and covid.
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SFC Terry Stinnett
Thankful to hear your child is thriving. Sometimes, it's just the 'luck of the draw'
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