{"id":1053,"date":"2022-10-24T09:36:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:02","slug":"a-tripledemic-flu-and-other-infections-return-as-covid-cases-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/24\/a-tripledemic-flu-and-other-infections-return-as-covid-cases-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Tripledemic\u2019? Flu and Other Infections Return as Covid Cases Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/23\/health\/flu-covid-risk.html\" target=\"_blank\">NYT<\/a>) Flu cases are higher than usual for this time of year and are expected to soar in the coming weeks. A third virus, R.S.V., is straining pediatric hospitals in some states. Cases of flu have begun to tick up earlier than usual, and are expected to soar over the coming weeks. Children infected with R.S.V. (which has similar symptoms to flu and Covid), rhinoviruses and enteroviruses are already\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.musc.edu\/about\/news-center\/2022\/10\/17\/sc-is-drowning-in-rsv-says-division-chief-of-pediatric-critical-care-at-musc-childrens-health\" target=\"_blank\">straining<\/a>\u00a0pediatric hospitals in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/surge-rsv-virus-fills-hospitals-can-severely-sicken-babies-rcna52082\" target=\"_blank\">several states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NYT) Flu cases are higher than usual for this time of year and are expected to soar in the coming weeks. A third virus, R.S.V., is straining pediatric hospitals in some states. Cases of flu have begun to tick up earlier than usual, and are expected to soar over the coming weeks. Children infected with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,7,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-rsv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}