The tripledemic unfolding this winter is one of several odd trends among respiratory virus infections these last years. Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
has not definitively detected the B/Yamagata flu strain since March 2020.
Still, Webby thinks another factor may have kept them at bay while COVID raged. It’s called viral interference, and it simply means that the presence of one virus can block another.What is viral interference?
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