PBS Video at the link – As we head into the winter holidays, John Yang speaks with epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina about the current state of affairs with COVID, RSV and flu infections, lagging vaccination rates and how to stay healthy this season.
It’s almost become a holiday tradition. Temperatures go down, decorations go up and so to COVID cases. We’ll look at the current state of affairs, not just with COVID but also with RSV and seasonal flu. We turn again to Katelyn Jetelina, publisher of the popular newsletter, Your Local Epidemiologist.
Katelyn, what is the situation right now with these three respiratory conditions or diseases? And how does it compare to previous years?
Katelyn Jetelina, Author, “Your Local Epidemiologist”: Yeah, that’s a good question. So unfortunately, we are in the smack middle of respiratory season. And that means that RSV, flu and COVID-19 are exponentially increasing, really across the nation right now.
We hope that RSP may be peaking soon in the south. But I would not be surprised if a lot of your family and friends are feeling a lot of different symptoms right now.