If you feel like everyone around you is sick right now, you’re not alone. A number of contagious respiratory illnesses are increasingly spreading across North...
If you feel like everyone around you is sick right now, you’re not alone.
Tests for the viruses provide epidemiologists with some sense of the rate at which each illness is circulating, but the results don’t paint a perfect picture of the viral landscape. At-home COVID-19 test results are rarely reported and RSV tests are in short supply. Texas health care providers are not required to report RSV test results to the state, so statewide RSV data is incomplete and used only to measure trends in RSV activity, DSHS press officer Douglas Loveday said.
“We know that masks work because we weren’t seeing flu and RSV at the beginning and middle of the pandemic when people were wearing masks,” she said.RSV often makes headlines for how it infects babies whose immune systems haven’t been exposed to the virus. That’s certainly true of the last few months: Children have been particularly hard-hit by RSV as they experience their first fall without COVID-19-induced public health measures like masking and social distancing.
“Adults might not get this severity from RSV as they might when they’re young, but folks with respiratory problems like asthma and COPD can get pretty sick from the virus,” said Dr. Gilberto Salazar, an emergency physician at Parkland Health and associate professor of emergency medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
North Texas hospitals reported 250 COVID-19 patients on Thursday, a far cry from the more-than 4,000 COVID patients hospitalized in the region at the peak of the omicron outbreak last January. COVID-19 hospitalizations still outpace those from the flu in North Texas, but flu hospitalizations are increasing, Love said.
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