COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

As we head toward Halloween, health experts are sharing a scary new word. They're calling the risk of surging COVID, influenza, and RSV a "tridemic" or "tripledemic."

It's already hit some schools and threatens to again overwhelm hospitals.

"RSV is probably the scariest experience we've had as parents," said Darcy Whelan Slayton, a southern Maryland mom whose 18-month-old son, August, has been hit by a seemingly non-stop wave of respiratory viruses.

"His first week of daycare, he came home sick on Friday of week one. It turned out he had RSV, which turned out to be RSV and the flu and also an ear infection. And it just sort of spreads like wildfire. And every week we're wondering how people do this."

At Stafford High School in Virginia, 1,000 students and staff, nearly half the student body, fell ill with flu-like gastrointestinal symptoms. The school newspaper blamed a homecoming dance that had more than 1,200 students corralled in the lunchroom.

The CDC says "Respiratory Syncytial Virus or RSV is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms. Most people recover in a week or two, but RSV can be serious, especially for infants and older adults."

Hospitals across the region say they're crowded with RSV patients...........

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...sedgntp&cvid=845632f997bd40b580cb76be9cd1b8d9