“Quad-demic” Hits Bakersfield, but Flu and RSV Lead Cases

"Quad-demic" Hits Bakersfield, but Flu and RSV Lead Cases
"Quad-demic" Hits Bakersfield, but Flu and RSV Lead Cases

United States: Remember when staying healthy in winter just meant avoiding the flu? Those were the days. This year, however, health officials are warning of a quad-demic—a perfect storm of four infectious viruses making the rounds. Alongside the usual suspects—flu, COVID-19, and RSV—add in the sneaky norovirus and it’s a lot to juggle.

So, what’s the best defense? Wash your hands a lot, stay home if you’re feeling off, and mask up if you’re worried about exposure. It’s going to be a tricky season—here’s how to stay ahead of it.

As reported by kget.com, William Franklin is an emergency medicine physician who works at Adventist Health, which has observed an 18% rise in hospital admission from patients with respiratory illnesses RSV, COVID and influenza A in just a month in the United States.

“I think people should be concerned,” Franking said. “The viruses are out there. Yes we are especially over the winter season people are falling ill we’ve seen a lot of influenza. Getting a little of influenza B too, which, normally emerges a bit later in the season.”

What about vaccines?

They are all the sudden that’s provocative.

Darrell Brown says he just got over the flu or something is his testimony. Why didn’t he get vaccinated?

“They’re having the vaccines, like, within the next day,” Brown said. “Some people have said, for example, ‘Oh, as a rule, people (at pharmaceutical companies) do their research on it’ (more carefully).”

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Absolute rubbish – go get vaccinated, Kian Azimian, an emergency medicine doctor from Dignity Health stated he admires people who went out to vote, his staff experienced a 40% monthly rise of patients in Mercy hospital ER and a 32 % increase of children in Memorial’s Ped ER.

“There is no side effect at all in the vaccines,” Azimian said. Go and get your family members, your loved ones vaccinated.” Get the vaccine. The rate of people that had any side effect from the vaccines is remarkably small now, ‘the risk of having an illness versus the benefit is not even – it’s not even close.’

Jill Baker agrees with that.

“I’m telling you that I’ve taken any Covid vaccine you can ever think of,” she said. They take every flu vaccine; they take every vaccine. Go vaccines! I didn’t vote for Trump.”

Flu instances were at forty million pursuant to CDC in the towards eighteen – two thousand and twenty-three – two thousand and twenty-four flu seasons. Enthusiastically again, 28, 000 people died last flu season despite the fact that most people get better in days.