'We're facing an onslaught of three viruses — COVID, RSV and influenza. All simultaneously,' says Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University. 'We're calling this a tripledemic.'
"What is this all going to mean for COVID? Are we going to see a January/February resurgence of COVID that's going to be fairly significant? That may yet be coming."
"I'm hopeful, given where we are with COVID, that we're not looking at something like last winter. But at the end of the day, Mother Nature gets the final word on these things," Dr."We're in new territory here" with three viruses all circulating at high levels simutaneously, he says., an epidemiologist who runs the Pandemic Center at Brown University.an exhausted nation has abandoned many of the precautions people were taking to protect themselves and others.
Nuzzo and others experts say Americans can get vaccinated and boosted, especially if they are at high risk because of their age or other health problems. "If you're not eating or drinking it's probably a smart idea to protect the immunocompromised, the infants, as well as the older individuals in the household," says Dr., an infectious disease specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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