How to Prepare For The Winter Tripledemic (with Dr Caitlin Rivers)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Lemonada Media

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Some pediatric units are reaching capacity already and experts are warning of a possible "Tripledemic" of respiratory viruses this winter. With an early surge in RSV cases, the upcoming flu season and the possibility of a COVID-19 surge, emergency rooms are preparing for a flood of visits in the coming month. Dr Bob Wachter sits in for Andy and talks with Dr Caitlin Rivers, an Infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins about how to protect you and your family this Thanksgiving. Keep up with Dr Bob Wachter on Twitter @Bob_Wachter Follow Dr Caitlin Rivers on Twitter @cmyeaton Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. Support the show by checking out our sponsors! CVS Health helps people navigate the healthcare system and their personal healthcare by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. At CVS Health, healthier happens together. Learn more at cvshealth.com. Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/ Check out these resources from today’s episode: Read Dr. Rivers’ Subtack “Force of Infection” at https://caitlinrivers.substack.com Find vaccines, masks, testing, treatments, and other resources in your community: https://www.covid.gov/ Order Andy’s book, “Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response”: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165 Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com/show/inthebubble. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.0	I am Dr. Bob Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California,
1:27.0	San Francisco. You might remember me having guest hosted the show for about four months and early 2021
1:33.0	when Andy was in the White House. As a devoted listener to the show, it's great to be back
1:37.0	while Andy is taking a well-deserved break for a couple of weeks.
1:41.0	Well, we find ourselves in yet another interesting time in the pandemic.
1:44.0	Cases beginning to tick up a bit and the alphabet soup of new variants has emerged with some uncertainty
1:50.0	about their impact on cases in severe disease.
1:53.0	We have a new booster, but it was engineered against the last variant, which is rapidly
1:58.0	being replaced by a new variant. So the question arises about how well it will work.
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