Posted on 01/08/2025 7:24:26 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Welcome to winter virus season.
Cases of acute respiratory illness, Covid-19 and seasonal flu are increasing in most parts of the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Emergency department visits for flu and the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, are very high. While Covid-19 cases leading to emergency department visits are still low, they are increasing, with wastewater testing already revealing high coronavirus levels.
How can you know which infectious disease you have? Does it depend on the illness, the symptoms or the characteristics of the person who is ill? And how can people find out what to do — should they go to their primary care provider, urgent care or the hospital’s emergency department?
Against this backdrop, norovirus cases causing gastrointestinal upset also have been surging. Several other infectious illnesses are making the rounds, too, including the viruses that cause the common cold and bacteria that lead to strep throat.
To help us with these questions, I spoke with CNN wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen. Wen is an emergency physician and clinical associate professor at the George Washington University. She previously served as Baltimore’s health commissioner.
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Let’s begin with respiratory illnesses. Most healthy people who have mild symptoms like runny nose, congestion and fatigue do not need to seek medical care. More than 200 viruses cause the common cold, which is more than likely the cause of these symptoms.
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Wen: It’s not easy to avoid infections during winter virus season, but people can take steps. Everyone should wash their hands regularly with soap and water, and, if soap and water are not available, use hand sanitizer. People who are especially vulnerable to severe illness should consider limiting their interactions with others. They should consider wearing a high-quality mask in indoor, crowded settings, and they should ask family members and friends who have symptoms to stay away until symptoms resolve.
“They should consider wearing a high-quality mask in indoor, crowded settings”
Wasn’t Dr. Wen one of those coronavirus Nazis?
You better stay away from me. I have them all. And I don’t wear a mask,I am a superspreader.
The VA does my health care, and during the last physical they never offered the flu shot. Typically they do.
Last year they said they no longer keep covid boosters in stock. They did offer the flu shot but could not tell me if it had the covid stuff in it. I declined.
I’ve had zero vaccinations since the covid scam started. I cannot afford to as the blood clots would plug up my stents and croak me off in seconds.
Just getting over influenza type a- wow! It was worse than covid! With covid, which I had 3 times, I took ivermectin every time and got over it pretty rapidly- but this flu, it just hangs on and on. Feels like death warmed over. Ivermect8n seems not to have helped much this time for whatever reason.
COVID wrecked my lungs. They went from clean and clear in my January 2020 MRI to massively scarred by April of 2020.
I now have Stage 2 COPD, going on Stage 3.
You apparently haven’t had the pleasure of texting your child in the other room to call for ambulance because you can’t get in the breath to call out to them or make the call yourself. Perhaps you missed the joys of listening to your child beg 911 to come immediately because “I’m watching my mom die infront of me!” with tears streaming down their face. I guess you never had to go through a PET scan because the scars on young lungs grew to 10X the size in just a few months after the latest bout of respiratory illness, or watch your life shrink to a housebound hermit because you no longer have the strength to do a fraction of what you used to do.
Not everyone who wears a mask is a hysterical Nazi. Some of us are compromised being repair (thanks, Fauci, may he rot in hell) and don’t feel like dying that week, thank you very much.
People need to check their attitudes.
Single digit temps
Honestly, what difference does it make?
Take care of yourself and treat it as we did in the days when not every illness was labeled and hyperventilated over.
The most important thing to do is watch out for signs of it taking a turn for the worse, or going into bacterial something.
I’ve been sneezing, sniffling and coughing for 15 years.
Allergies.
I wouldn’t know the difference if I caught a cold, flu or one of their engineered diseases unless it came with a high fever or sore throat.
I use the VA, too. They offered me a flu shot last time I was in; I declined. Have never had one and can remember having the true ‘flu’ only twice in my adult years.
They did not offer a CovidBS-19 booster; would’ve refused that, too, though I did take the first 2-round shots in 2020 hoping to be able to be with my Dad while he was dying of cancer - and then his facility STILL wouldn’t let me in to see him. Grrr!
Exactly. My summer allergies give me more grief than anything.
Yes, she is. She really gets around, too. Was head of Planned Parenthood/Baby Murderers for a time.
“Sniffling, sneezing, coughing...”
STAY HOME!
Don’t go to Olive Garden with the entire extended family to G-Pa & G-Ma’s 50th wedding anniversary party and continue throughout the occasion to cough up a lung. You know the deep dry cough that sounds like an echo chamber.
Hey G-Pa & G-Ma happy, cough, cough 50th wedding anniversary cough, cough. I sure hope that at your age and frailty that you don’t get what I got.
My doc said he doesn’t carry ANY mRNA vaccines.
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Same with a brother-in-law. He had numerous Agent Orange related diseases. When covid hit he got the shots and then started to fail big time. The VA hospital would not even let his wife up to see him, and she had all that vax crap too. They sent him home a few days before he passed away.
It’s so sad how the medical community has gone down the sewer.
Like FRAUDci himself said, over a decade ago....
“The best flu shot is to catch the flu.”
No flu shot covers what is going around, anyway.
Because in the cold we humans tend to cluster closer together exchanging droplets constantly infecting each other.
In summer we're largely outdoors and not sneezing in each others faces.
And also our vitamin D levels from being outdoors is higher.
Yes. The sun is one a very few sources of vitamin D.
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