U.S. Could Face Tripledemic of RSV, COVID, and Flu This Year
“There isn’t any doubt that there are going to be three active respiratory viruses this season,” says William Schaffner, M.D., an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “COVID is out there, RSV started unseasonably early and is giving pediatric hospitals a hard time in the sense that there are many children that need care.
OK, but…why are cases surging right now? It’s not entirely clear, but there are some theories. “It’s a puzzle, but the favorite explanation is that, during the period of relative social distancing and lockdown, many children didn’t attend schools or go to daycare—and this is a virus that affects children and older persons,” Dr. Schaffner says. RSV is a common childhood illness and, because many children weren’t interacting with each other, they didn’t get infected, he says.
And, of course, there’s a chance you could get three different respiratory viruses in a season. “People can definitely get all three—there’s no question about that,” Dr. Russo says. While all three viruses cause respiratory illnesses, they’re three “completely independent viruses and very different from each other,” Dr. Schaffner says.
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