The CDC is preparing for a winter with '3 bugs out there': Covid, flu and RSV

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65. RSV probably caused many more deaths than we will ever know

simply because it had not been identified as a separate virus.

I'm old enough to remember folks dying of pneumonia which at the time was believed to be " a bad cold that went wrong". Any respiratory virus infection can develop into a very serious situation in the right circumstances. Way back then, you would often hear a person died of "viral Pneumonia"; I always wondered if that was a virus which directly attacked the lungs, rather than a bacterial lung infection which was a complication of a flu, cold or other viral incident. Certainly RSV had not been identified that long ago or we would have known about it.

Mr YD has early stage COPD and lives in fear of Covid. I will insist he get that RSV as soon as possible.

I can't take the RSV or pneumonia vax right now because I am currently in a clinical trial for a combo RSV/Pneumonia vaccine; I had to be over 65 to participate. Good news is I have a 50% chance of being vaccinated; bad news is I have 50% chance of placebo. If I did get placebo, I can get the vaccine when the trial is over.