It's not just people coming out of lockdown: As COVID-19 restrictions ease and masks come off, as crowds gather and vacationers travel, viruses that had been reduced are now reemerging.
Seasonal coronaviruses, which typically emerge in the winter and decline in March, increased by 211% in Houston from March to April and continued to increase in May.Costi Sifri, MD, director of hospital epidemiology at University of Virginia Health in Charlottesville, says that at one point this winter his hospital had zero cases of flu and very few RSV cases.
Recently, he said, he has been seeing an increase in cases of parainfluenza after seeing few during the pandemic. He also said that after a year of few non-COVID infections, some patients may end up infected with multiple viruses at once.. In a very rare example, he said, this week an infant at University of Virginia Health was hospitalized with parainfluenza, adenovirus, RSV, and rhinovirus/"I've never seen any patient, any child, with four different respiratory viruses at the same time," Sifri says.at the same time are certainly possible, particularly as people go back indoors in the fall and are not wearing masks.
“We are seeing some recently...kid’s viruses such as RSV and adult viruses with influenza, which is very uncommon for late May, early June,” said Dr. Nicholas Haddad, a
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