Public health experts are warning of a ‘quad-demic’ this winter. Here’s where flu, COVID, RSV, and norovirus are spreading

Fortune via Yahoo ^ | 01 02 2025 | Lindsey Leake

[yesthatjallen]

As you deck the halls and traverse afar this holiday season, taking precautions to protect yourself from a quartet of infectious diseases can lessen your odds of bringing an illness into the new year.

Flu, COVID, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and norovirus are making their winter rounds nationwide, and you may have heard the term “quad-demic” pop up online or in conversation (the first three are sometimes called a “triple-demic”). While the unofficial term for the four maladies circulating in tandem evokes a sense of impending doom, the quadruple threat isn’t so different from respiratory virus seasons past.

“All of the viruses are here, it’s just they’re affecting different areas a little bit differently,” Dr. Robert Hopkins Jr., medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases tells Fortune. “I don’t want to panic people, but I would say if you haven’t been vaccinated and you’re eligible for vaccination—that means everybody 6 months of age and older—get that COVID shot, get that flu shot.”

SNIP

[yesthatjallen]

Pandemics used to happen once in a century. Now we have four a year.

[lightman]

Norovirus is spread fecal to oral.

Wash your hands—that’s what you do—when you’ve done a number two.

[Bratch]

[ncalburt]

Ramping up

Perpetual STATE OF FEAR like the Micheal Crichton novel .

BS weekly now

Polar Vortex Alert
Terrorism Alert
Now
A Sea of Plagues

Sounds like the Bible format to me .

[monkeyshine]

And here I am with a lowly sore throat. Maybe I should quit drinking. Or drink more. One of the two option should work.

[Fledermaus]

WOLF

[lightman]

Drink honey flavored whiskey.

[FateAmenableToChange]

I kind of think it might be spread another way too.

[dragnet2]

Can we expect yet another bio weapon accidently released a week prior to Trump’s inauguration?

[Steely Tom]

It's a Perfect Storm. A Black Swan Event. A Game Changer. A Butterfly in Africa. A Wake-Up Call. The Chickens are Coming Home to Roost. It's a fin de siècle, the End of History, the End of Cheap Oil. It's the Population Bomb, the Malthusian Crisis. It's Y2K. It's the Ozone Hole, it's the Destruction of the Rain Forest, the Reversal of the Geomagnetic Poles, the Collapse of the Van Allen Belts.

[Jim W N]

"Public health experts".

Oh those guys in gov't who have no constitutional authority to meddle in our healthcare but who get paid to manage (create?) health problems.

NUKE UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL GOV'T HEALTHCARE!!!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Works every time.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Are these the same public health experts that lied about Covid origin, “vaccine” effectiveness, masks, etc? Why aren’t they already on trial for crimes against humanity?

They should welcome a trial. I mean, if they were to be found not guilty, it might help restore some credibility.

[9YearLurker]

And don’t touch anything touched by someone else who didn’t?

[Sacajaweau]

I worry about drones. Last month, we looked at 100s as non-threatening. But it only takes one with an anthrax load over NYC....or worse.

[cgbg]

The federal “health” bureaucrats are the ones who need to panic.

A whole bunch of these clowns pushing vaxxes need to be fired.

[dragnet2]

I’m waiting for the globalist to accidently release another bio weapon in a Wuhan type event. No joke.

[ConservativeMind]

Because Trump.

[Steely Tom]

I’m waiting for the globalist to accidently release another bio weapon in a Wuhan type event. No joke.

They'd really really like to knock three or four zeros off the world population total. Replace the missing people with robots to do all the physical work.

This is going to be a major threat in the not-too-distant future.

[Steely Tom]

Just exactly what Monsanto did with RoundUp. Except for people.