Posted on 05/29/2023 8:09:47 PM PDT by algore
A deadly virus that few people even know exists is causing misery across intensive care units and pediatric hospitals, doctors warn.
High rates of Covid, flu and even RSV during winter led to hospitals overflowing during winter during a situation dubbed a 'tripledemic'.
But cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), which can cause bronchitis and pneumonia, shot up to record levels in spring, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s respiratory virus surveillance systems.
It may partly explain why so many people tested negative for flu and Covid in recent months despite showing symptoms.
Dr John Williams, a pediatrician at the University of Pittsburgh who has spent his career researching vaccines and treatments for HMPV, said HMPV was 'the most important virus you've never heard of'.
This year in mid-March, 11 percent of tested cases were positive for HMPV. This is 36 percent higher than the average seasonal peak prior to the pandemic of seven percent.
Most patients who caught the virus probably did so unknowingly, as people are only tested for it in the hospital or emergency room.
Due to a lack of testing, the number who get infected or die from HMPV each year is not known, but test positivity — the swabs that are being tested — is on the rise.
There are no vaccines or drugs to treat HMPV.
It causes a cough, runny nose, sore throat and fever. In serious cases, patients may struggle to breathe, or suffer bronchitis or pneumonia.
As with the flu, babies and the elderly are most at risk because their immune systems are either still developing or deteriorating.
HMPV is spread by direct or close contact with an infected person, such as a cough, shaking hands, sneezing or touching infected objects or surfaces.
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Not a metapneumo, eh?
Well, you won’t have much fun around here on the weekends, now will you!?! LOL
Facts
They’ve been threatened to within an inch of their professional license to practice against doing what doctors used to do.
The job is different now.
More akin to a highly-paid gas station attendant.
Freeper oldeconomybuyer has the wonderful deapan portait of Goebbels. I reread the article a little more carefully when I see it, figuring there’s a nugget or two I may have glossed over.
Our FRiend tends to save it for Climate Change and other notable gaslighting efforts.
“Well, you won’t have much fun around here on the weekends, now will you!?”
Come to think of it, I’m not invited to parties nearly as often in the past.
Maybe I should try out some of that metapneumo, ehh?
That’s the spirit, Bob-O!
I never metapneumo I didn’t like
Yet… give it time. Then line up like good little boys and girls for your “free” shot.
Paid for by you, the taxpayer.
I had this crap twice this year. Started with a gushing runny nose, when that passed, it was followed by a worsening cough. The coughing every time I tried to lay down was miserable, made me lose a lot of sleep. No sore throat though, which was weird.
So it shares the same symptom set as a whole host of other ailments like flu, colds, etc.
Imagine that,
Sorry...after the Wuhan hoopla, I am super dismissive of this “science”.
I’ve never had a covid test or any reason to even consider one for that matter.
took about 4 weeks to feel better and stop the constant cough, and 2-3 more to stop it all together.
I also recommend taking a brisk walk/ get your heart/ breathing rate up - daily after about 2-3 weeks just to keep the lungs open.
only use the boubon as necessary . one shot- straight up- every 2-3 hours this slows the cough and opens the throat.
and AVOID the doctors office at all costs unless you have a high fever or trouble breathing. Doctors will charge you $$$ to tell you " There is no cure, take some motrin and stay away from others".
p.s. I believe this is caused by the vaccinated "shedding" the vaccine. stay away from those who have been vaccinated! and especially those who are boosted!!! wash your hands alot!
That or the AIDS they got from the frankenshot made them vulnerable to everything.
Yup. Exactly what happened to me. Lasted several weeks.
The Vax damaged immune systems making people susceptible to different diseases they used to be immune to.
Get a nebulizer and use the Frontline doctors saline formula. It will work wonders on your breathing.
Life is the #1 cause of death.
Just stop it media! Just go away! It’s like if there is no “emergency” or signs of some type of “virus”, the media has to go hunting for one. Just go away and leave us alone!
Virus you’ve never heard of Biden imports them by the millions all in the name of diversity.
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