{"id":5375,"date":"2023-11-29T07:06:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2023-11-29T07:06:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:06:52","slug":"why-you-are-more-likely-to-get-sick-this-winter-in-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/29\/why-you-are-more-likely-to-get-sick-this-winter-in-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Are More Likely to Get Sick This Winter, in Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/winter-covid-flu-rsv-02096c77?mod=health_lead_pos1\">WSJ<\/a> With Covid-19 here to stay alongside flu and RSV, wintertime illnesses have become harder to dodge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid-19 is settling in as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-19-marches-toward-endemic-status-in-u-s-as-omicron-spreads-11640255407\">a wintertime fixture<\/a>, and infections are expected to rise again as the weather cools and holiday gatherings pile up. The virus is on a collision course with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/wellness\/flu-shot-season-2023-symptoms-cda55e55\">the seasonal scourges of flu<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/new-rsv-drug-has-limited-supply-cdc-says-ce2ccf1f\">respiratory syncytial virus,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>or RSV<\/a>, which are circulating again after the pandemic disrupted their spread.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The risk? More infections,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>more&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/covid-2023-mask-mandates-school-business-cd45872\">disruptions to schools, work and holidays<\/a>&nbsp;and more strain on hospitals than before the pandemic.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/eg5-eris-new-covid-19-variant-fa3cc260\">Covid has raised the baseline<\/a>&nbsp;for winters to come.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-do-we-actually-know-about-covid-19-not-enough-ec1dcafe\">a new normal<\/a>. It\u2019s going to be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/wellness\/covid-flu-rsv-shots-timing-a2359d8c\">three different viruses instead of two<\/a>,\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>said Catherine Brown, Massachusetts\u2019 state epidemiologist.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Covid arrived, it threw the usual rhythm of respiratory infections into turmoil. Covid cases surged, while mitigation measures including school shutdowns and social distancing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/another-respiratory-virus-is-spreading-as-u-s-gets-back-to-pre-covid-19-life-11625140800\">helped sideline flu and RSV<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those familiar&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/wellness\/covid-fall-2023-new-variant-updates-c1135ce6\">cold-weather foes bounced back<\/a>&nbsp;last year. Now, RSV infections are taking off again, and flu activity is increasing in most of the U.S. Covid hospitalizations appear to be edging up, too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis may be the most normal, whatever normal means, season that we\u2019re going to see for some time,\u201d said Dr.\u00a0Yvonne Maldonado, a pediatric infectious-disease specialist at Stanford Medicine Children\u2019s Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/winter-covid-flu-rsv-02096c77?mod=health_lead_pos1\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ With Covid-19 here to stay alongside flu and RSV, wintertime illnesses have become harder to dodge. Covid-19 is settling in as&nbsp;a wintertime fixture, and infections are expected to rise again as the weather cools and holiday gatherings pile up. The virus is on a collision course with&nbsp;the seasonal scourges of flu&nbsp;and&nbsp;respiratory syncytial virus,&nbsp;or RSV, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"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\/5375","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}