RSV, Flu and COVID-19

Is a 'quademic' swirling? What you should know about flu, RSV, COVID and norovirus
RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, usually peaks in December and January while infecting the nose, throat and lungs, usually causing mild, cold-like symptoms, the CDC says. Those symptoms make it difficult to distinguish it from the common cold, COVID-19, or influenza.
Flu Cases On Rise, New Data Also Reveals COVID, RSV Trends
With respiratory illness season at its peak, the latest CDC data shows a significant rise in flu cases nationwide, while COVID-19 cases decline and RSV activity continues to wane.According to the CDC’s latest FluView report,
How Bad Are COVID, Flu and RSV This Winter?
Flu hospitalizations appear to have declined from an initial peak in January, but they remain high, and cases may be rebounding. Levels of the virus that causes COVID detected in wastewater are also high but declining.
Flu cases soar in NC as COVID, RSV numbers decline
The good news is that Covid and RSV cases are trending down. However, flu numbers are soaring. WRAL News checked in with Duke Health, UNC and WakeMed. On Monday alone, Duke Health
Symptoms of flu, COVID, RSV: What to know as Illinois sees ‘notable increase' in viruses
Illinois is seeing levels of respiratory viruses tick up, the Illinois Department of Public Health said, with a “notable increase” in emergency department visits and hospital admissions for flu, although symptoms of flu,
Fact Check: Moderna began clinical trials of COVID vaccine in 2020, not 2017
Data on mRNA vaccines sent by Moderna to European regulators before the COVID-19 outbreak included early tests of the mRNA ...
Flu, COVID, strep or norovirus? Here's what's spreading this cold and flu season in Austin
Flu season is here with some other ickiness joining the petri dish party, including allergies, strep, pneumonia, COVID-19 and ...
Long COVID impacting more than 1 million children: CDC study suggests
A new CDC study published Monday found that more than 1 million children were affected by long COVID in 2023. Higher levels ...
How Did Covid Change Your Life?
As the five-year anniversary approaches of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus pandemic, The New ...
Protection from COVID reinfections plummeted from 80% to 5% with omicron
With the rise of omicron came the fall of long-lasting protection from reinfection with the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, ...
Smaller US winter COVID wave adds pressure to Pfizer turnaround
Health experts are seeing signs of a much smaller wave of U.S. COVID-19 cases this winter than in previous years, which could ...
Has the Coronavirus Pandemic Changed Your Relationship to Grief?
The New York Times is interested in exploring how the response to loss may have changed in the last five years.
Long COVID: women at greater risk compared to men – could immune system differences be the cause?
While researchers don’t currently know why women are at greater risk of long COVID, differences in the way men’s and women’s ...
‘We really never came back to each other’: Five years after COVID, we’re more divided than ever
After a brief moment when Americans came together to battle a virus, the pandemic accelerated divisions of all kinds. If it ...
January jobs data looks a lot like a pre-COVID report, when economy was fairly stable: economist
Some economists may view the January jobs report as a bit of a soft report. But when you put it in the context of the last 20 years, it is pretty close to the pre-COVID era, when there was a fairly ...
COVID-19 may attack arteries, increase risk to heart, study finds
Even a mild infection with COVID-19 can promote clogged arteries, increasing the risk of heart attack in some people, a new ...