{"id":8575,"date":"2025-01-28T11:52:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8575"},"modified":"2025-01-28T11:52:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:52:37","slug":"covid-flu-and-rsv-which-virus-has-the-worst-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/28\/covid-flu-and-rsv-which-virus-has-the-worst-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID, Flu, and RSV: Which Virus Has the Worst Outcomes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/generalinfectiousdisease\/113951?xid=nl_mpt_morningbreak2025-01-28&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;zdee=gAAAAABm4uVVa0noffRIJqPd2rsKKgBm5ZURWXfuJljHxkA5SxaiDrFhpdNSLVuatrcndghIUJbdB8i3tZ00Sf5MYAfngC1RuyQP-n6FrYFzvROxn-4_blA%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningBreak_012825&amp;utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_Daily_News_Update_active\">MedPageToday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID-19 still worse, but differences narrowed in 2023-2024 season compared with prior year<br>SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with more severe disease outcomes than influenza or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) during the 2022-2023 respiratory illness season, while differences were less striking during the 2023-2024 season, according to a retrospective cohort study of veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 30-day risk of death during the 2022-2023 season was 1.0% for COVID-19 compared with 0.7% for both influenza and RSV, and 0.9% for COVID versus 0.7% for both flu and RSV during the 2023-2024 season, reported Kristina L. Bajema, MD, of the Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System in Oregon, and colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/generalinfectiousdisease\/113951?xid=nl_mpt_morningbreak2025-01-28&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;zdee=gAAAAABm4uVVa0noffRIJqPd2rsKKgBm5ZURWXfuJljHxkA5SxaiDrFhpdNSLVuatrcndghIUJbdB8i3tZ00Sf5MYAfngC1RuyQP-n6FrYFzvROxn-4_blA%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningBreak_012825&amp;utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_Daily_News_Update_active\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday COVID-19 still worse, but differences narrowed in 2023-2024 season compared with prior yearSARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with more severe disease outcomes than influenza or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) during the 2022-2023 respiratory illness season, while differences were less striking during the 2023-2024 season, according to a retrospective cohort study of veterans. The 30-day risk [&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":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","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\/8575","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=8575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8576,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions\/8576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}