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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Vaccine induced ADE is a Trojan Horse.
There is no vaccine for this
Quit being a jerk
And you know nothing. But go ahead and try again
And you know nothing. But go ahead and try again
It did not. Quit making crap up. It makes us all look stupid
Speak for yourself. You’re the one being a total jerk.
Sod off, tool.
The ones still covering for the horrid $hots are the ones looking “stupid”.
Maybe they took the things and are scared, witless.
Yeah, the Vax is perfectly safe and effective because Fauxi said so. BAAAAAH.
Many of us have taken it and been just fine
Take it or don’t. Be responsible for your own health
Gee you’re pleasant. Did I catch you before your coffee
Or maybe repeated jabs have depressed immune systems.
Many are not and have had terrible side effects and death. Pray you continue to have good health. Do some research.
Sheesh, you’d think the medical community was just discovering that other viruses cause illness besides Covid.
Idiots.
I’ve done my research
It has been over a year and a half. I’m just fine. My numbers are great
Most have know idea how old I actually am
I know what I see.
One person means nothing. The studies are showing perhaps a million people have died from the vax and possibly ten times that many since the govt is hiding the numbers.
That is not what the studies show. But keep at it
We should all wear something on our faces to gather up lots of germs.
Actually, it is. Just not the studies you read like the United States had the worst success rate of every country with Covid.
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