For each of the last two years, Thanksgiving helped usher in some very unwelcome guests: Devastating waves of COVID-19. Now the country is dealing with a different kind of threat — an unpredictable confluence of old and new respiratory pathogens.
“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.”
“We can’t just resign ourselves to assuming that it’s going to happen no matter what,” she says. “We can very much take action to prevent a rise in hospitalizations and deaths.” There are hints that RSV may already be peaking, and the flu could also peak early, before any new COVID-19 surge emerges. That would help relieve at least some of the pressure on hospitals.
STEIN: RSV crept back first, infecting lockdown babies and their older brothers and sisters with little immunity, overwhelming pediatric emergency rooms and intensive care units from coast to coast. The first big flu season in three years started early, too, sickening more kids with a strain that looks like it could be bad for their grandparents, too. That’s swamping more already understaffed, pandemic-spent hospitals. Here’s Lynnette Brammer from the CDC.
STEIN: Immunity from all the COVID vaccinations and infections should blunt a new surge of serious illness, especially, Dr. Ashish Jha at the White House says, if people get one of the new bivalent omicron boosters.
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