Category: RSV
Tripledemic Update: RSV, Covid And Flu
(Forbes) The United States has already plunged into one of the roughest seasons of winter illnesses in decades. After nearly three years of being sequestered, children and adults are back out in crowds, with no masks, no distancing, and viruses waiting with open arms. Well, open RNA strands, at least. We’ve rounded the bend on […]
Dec 16, 2022
How to Help Prevent Flu and RSV? You Might Not Like the Answer.
(WSJ) As respiratory viruses surge across the country, a number of public-health officials and doctors are encouraging masking to protect against flu and RSV, in addition to Covid-19. Whether masks are enough—and whether people are willing to wear them after the country has largely moved on from pandemic precautions—is another matter.
Dec 9, 2022
New Mexico issues public health emergency order as respiratory viruses rise
(ABQ Journal) New Mexico hospitals are returning to the “hub-and-spoke” model of patient triage, which was used throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a rising number of pediatric patients. Acting Health Secretary David Scrase issued a public health emergency order Thursday, citing an increasing number of pediatric patients, a shortage of hospital staff and a lack […]
Dec 5, 2022
RSV Cases May Have Peaked in the US But the Flu Is Surging
(Bloomberg) The flu is sending more children to the hospital in the US right now than it has in over a decade, just as an autumn spike in severe RSV cases is starting to recede. Severe cases of RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, have overloaded children’s hospitals the past few months. In early November, when cases […]
Nov 29, 2022
R.S.V. Strains California Hospitals
(NYT) The Covid-19 pandemic persists, we’re in the midst of flu season and now there’s a new threat to worry about: R.S.V. Perhaps you’ve heard of the possibility of a “tripledemic,” an alarming sequel to last winter’s “twindemic” with the addition of respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V. It is by no means a new virus, but the […]
Nov 29, 2022
Promising Research Working Toward RSV Prevention
(Univ Colorado) As the number of hospitalizations related to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) continues to climb steeply throughout Colorado, with a reported 1,139 hospitalizations since Oct. 1, clinician and researcher Eric Simões, MD, is leading two studies that he hopes will help curtail future RSV surges. Simões, a clinical professor of pediatric infectious diseases in the University of Colorado School of […]
Nov 28, 2022
Fauci: RSV cases at “critical” point, hopeful rates decline soon
(Axios) Spiking cases of (RSV) among children are currently at a critical juncture in the U.S. but will hopefully begin declining from their peak soon, outgoing NIAID director Anthony Fauci told CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. (Transcript here)
Nov 28, 2022
San Francisco Bay Area children’s hospitals enacting contingency plans to deal with RSV surge
(SF Gate) As a surge in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases sweeps across the Bay Area, the region’s children’s hospitals are enacting contingency plans to deal with an increase in patients. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Mission Bay has erected a tent with seven additional beds, and the hospital’s Oakland location is using an annex with […]
Nov 28, 2022
Is it Covid, flu or RSV? A few hallmarks can help distinguish among the illnesses
(NBC News) Covid, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are together driving a national wave of respiratory illnesses. Around 76% of U.S. hospital inpatient beds are full, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services. Pediatric beds are at a similar level, though six states have 90% or more of their pediatric beds full, […]
Nov 28, 2022
Competition between respiratory viruses may hold off a ‘tripledemic’ this winter
(Science) Researchers say there is a growing body of evidence these viruses interfere with each other’s spread. Triple threat. Tripledemic. A viral perfect storm. These frightening phrases have dominated recent headlines as some health officials, clinicians, and scientists forecast that SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) could surge at the same time in Northern […]
Nov 22, 2022
