642 - Last Year Was A Big Respiratory Viral Mess. Will We See The Same Again This Year?
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
After last year's "tripledemic" of flu, COVID, and RSV, we're all wary of what this coming year might bring. Infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. David Dowdy returns to the podcast to talk with Lindsay Smith Rogers lessons learned, what can be expected as of right now, and potential impacts from new vaccines and treatments, like the game-changing antibody that protects kids from RSV, are entering the mix. Tl;dr: Get vaccinated for everything as soon as you're able to and we might be in better shape for the years to come.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.u. |
| 0:23.6 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:30.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:32.6 | Today, infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. David Dowdy returns to the podcast to talk about |
| 0:38.9 | what we learned from last year's flu, RSV, COVID, tripledemic, and what we might see this year. |
| 0:45.5 | We'll also talk about how new vaccines and treatments like the game-changing antibody that |
| 0:50.6 | protects kids from RSV are entering the mix. Let's listen. |
| 0:56.2 | David Dowdy, welcome back again to public health on call. It's good to see you. How's your |
| 1:00.7 | summer? It's been great. Thanks for having them back, Lindsay. Yeah, sure. So it's July, but we're |
| 1:08.0 | already thinking ahead. We're talking about the 2020,, 2024 flu-R-SV COVID season. |
| 1:15.0 | And the narrative that we that we've sort of had is that last year was this big, unprecedented, |
| 1:20.3 | viral, respiratory mess after a couple of years of not seeing as much flu in RSV, and we've |
| 1:26.1 | talked before about the reasons for that. |
| 1:28.4 | But a lot of us are a little on edge about maybe another difficult season. |
| 1:33.2 | So can you help us put last year in perspective? |
| 1:36.6 | Sure. |
| 1:37.3 | So I think people have, you know, a reason to be on edge. |
| 1:42.2 | The COVID pandemic threw us all for a loop, and we, I think |
| 1:46.8 | no one really knows what to make of respiratory viruses anymore. I think that, you know, last year, |
| 1:53.0 | we did have quite a large spike in RSV, and the flu season was earlier than usual, but not necessarily worse than usual. |
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