Viral infections are on the rise, as usual

Excerpt: ”The last few years have been full of overlapping symptoms when it comes to the common cold, allergies, COVID, flu and more. This fall and winter will be no different as cold and flu (and now COVID) season is approaching.

Compared to the last few years, this season of respiratory infections will be more a part of our normal lives- in the sense that there is no federal emergency order recommending and regulating how we respond, manage and treat respiratory infections. This fall there will be increases in respiratory infections, which is part of the natural course of the calendar year because as the cold weather changes occur, it makes it easier to be infected by viruses.

Additionally, as more students are back in school and people are indoors more, it is easier to spread viruses from person to person and household to household.

Since the COVID-related federal emergency order has ended, there are less policies and regulations related to cold or flu-like symptoms and the risk of having a COVID infection. This means that as we get into the fall and winter seasons, we all have to collectively try to protect ourselves and others from respiratory infections in order to decrease spread and diseases.”

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