{"id":150758,"date":"2022-11-21T23:26:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T05:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/competition-between-respiratory-viruses-may-hold-off-a-tripledemic-this-winter"},"modified":"2022-11-21T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T05:26:23","slug":"competition-between-respiratory-viruses-may-hold-off-a-tripledemic-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/competition-between-respiratory-viruses-may-hold-off-a-tripledemic-this-winter","title":{"rendered":"Competition between respiratory viruses may hold off a \u2018tripledemic\u2019 this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/competition-between-respiratory-viruses-may-hold-off-a-tripledemic-this-winter3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Triple threat. Tripledemic. A viral perfect storm. These frightening phrases have dominated recent headlines as some health officials, clinicians, and scientists forecast that SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) could surge at the same time in Northern Hemisphere locales that have relaxed masking, social distancing, and other COVID-19 precautions.<\/p>\n<p>But a growing body of epidemiological and laboratory evidence offers some reassurance: SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses often \u201cinterfere\u201d with each other. Although waves of each virus may stress emergency rooms and intensive care units, the small clique of researchers who study these viral collisions say there is little chance the trio will peak together and collectively crash hospital systems the way COVID-19 did at the pandemic\u2019s start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlu and other respiratory viruses and SARS-CoV-2 just don\u2019t get along very well together,\u201d says virologist Richard Webby, an influenza researcher at St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital. \u201cIt\u2019s unlikely that they will circulate widely at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triple threat. Tripledemic. A viral perfect storm. These frightening phrases have dominated recent headlines as some health officials, clinicians, and scientists forecast that SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) could surge at the same time in Northern Hemisphere locales that have relaxed masking, social distancing, and other COVID-19 precautions. But a growing body of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}