Health experts share warning, tips as flu, RSV cases rise across South Florida
"We're having a spike of flu definitely," Dr. Pilar Delgado told CBS News Miami.
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"We're having a spike of flu definitely," Dr. Pilar Delgado told CBS News Miami.
Deputy HHS secretary Jim O'Neill is also serving as acting CDC director as RFK Jr.'s newly appointed vaccine advisory panel prepares for its first meeting.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID, flu, RSV and norovirus are all surging in the U.S. It's predicting respiratory virus hospitalizations could be as high as last year, despite a slow start to this cold and flu season.
If you still haven't gotten your COVID or flu shot, now is the time so you'll stay protected throughout the season, according to doctors.
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The RSV vaccine by GSK was previously approved only for adults 60 and older.
The new recommendations apply to COVID-19 and other viruses, like flu and RSV.
Doctors are seeing some sicknesses they don't routinely test for and some of them can linger
The COVID-19 virus is continually changing, and a recent subvariant, the JN.1, is rapidly climbing the charts.
CBS News Miami's Ivan Taylor reports on the rise of respiratory viruses.
As seasonal virus activity surges across the United States, experts stress the importance of preventive measures – such as masking and vaccination – and the value of treatment for those who do get sick.
"COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising quickly," the CDC said, and the new variant JN.1 is making up an increasing share of cases.
Demand for the Beyfortus antibody shot has been so high that the CDC recommends doctors give it only to their most vulnerable patients.
RSV is the leading cause of hospitalization among infants, according to the CDC.
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Michael George reports it would be given during a woman's pregnancy, so the antibodies could be passed onto newborns.
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According to the CDC, 47 states or jurisdictions are reporting very high or high flu activity.
Hospitalizations for flu and COVID-19 are increasing.
Wearing masks may seem like a thing of the past, but with COVID-19, influenza, and RSV cases are increasing nationwide and doctors in South Florida say we're in a tripledemic.
The CDC estimates that there have been at least 8.7 million illnesses, 78,000 hospitalizations and 4,500 deaths from influenza this season.
Two doctors who work in the branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases, Rebecca S.B. Fischer of Texas A&M University and Annette Regan of University of San Francisco, discuss why more children than usual are suffering from respiratory illnesses.
The combination of three viruses -- COVID-19, influenza and RSV -- coined “triple epidemic,” has caused the cases of upper respiratory infections to increase recently and has caused sufferers to take a long time to recover, say experts.
Some 330,000 health care professionals exited the field in 2021, creating a worker shortage amid a rise in viral illnesses.
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