{"id":181445,"date":"2024-01-26T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/sick-of-being-sick-as-respiratory-viruses-roar-back-experts-offer-guidance"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:28:09","slug":"sick-of-being-sick-as-respiratory-viruses-roar-back-experts-offer-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/sick-of-being-sick-as-respiratory-viruses-roar-back-experts-offer-guidance","title":{"rendered":"Sick of being sick? As respiratory viruses roar back, experts offer guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sick-of-being-sick-as-respiratory-viruses-roar-back-experts-offer-guidance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It crept up slowly, almost imperceptibly. A vague rawness at the back of my throat. A thrumming malaise. On Thanksgiving Day, it lunged.<\/p>\n<p>For two weeks, I was in the grip of an unusually malevolent respiratory illness. But I was in good company: Nationwide, the percentage of health care visits for flulike symptoms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/weekly\/index.htm#ILINet\">ticked up<\/a> above the baseline at the start of November and has remained elevated ever since, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the respiratory viruses are back in full force,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/anne-liu\">Anne Liu<\/a>, MD, a Stanford Medicine immunologist and infectious disease specialist confirmed. The main reasons, she said, are fairly straightforward: Social distancing and masking are not popular choices in the wake of the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It crept up slowly, almost imperceptibly. A vague rawness at the back of my throat. A thrumming malaise. On Thanksgiving Day, it lunged. For two weeks, I was in the grip of an unusually malevolent respiratory illness. But I was in good company: Nationwide, the percentage of health care visits for flulike symptoms ticked up [\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-181445","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\/181445","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=181445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}