INTERVIEW: The Next Virus To Watch?
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
A live interview on RSV, flu, and protecting yourself and your family. Flu season arrived early this year, along with heightened concern about RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) - a virus that can impact young children. With doctors issuing warnings about what's on the horizon and hospitals setting up additional resources, what should we know? Pulmonologist and critical care physician Dr. Rutland takes your questions and provides invaluable perspective for how to stay healthy this winter.
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BTW - as we recorded this interview, officials in Orange County, California, declared a public health emergency due to a spike in respiratory illnesses for children.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everybody. Welcome to November and a whole new month, a whole new month of news |
| 0:09.5 | that we get to look at ahead for the back half of the year as we near the end, believe it |
| 0:14.4 | or not, of 2022. One of the big stories of this fall, now going into this winter, has been not COVID this year, |
| 0:23.3 | but respiratory illnesses like RSV and flu. And so now that Halloween is done, although candy |
| 0:29.9 | is all over my house, we're going to kind of turn our gaze towards the holidays and how to |
| 0:36.1 | keep your family healthy during this time. |
| 0:38.6 | We got a lot to look through. |
| 0:39.6 | So I'm going to show you a couple different things. |
| 0:41.0 | Dr. Rutland's going to jump in in just a second. |
| 0:43.0 | He's going to answer your questions about what we're seeing when it comes to pediatric |
| 0:47.8 | illnesses. |
| 0:48.8 | And we're also going to connect this. |
| 0:50.2 | You know, when some believe that children are really the main vectors of transmission of all sorts |
| 0:56.4 | of viruses that we all end up getting. |
| 0:58.3 | So it's important to pay attention to what's going on with the littlest among us because |
| 1:02.2 | we care about them, of course, but also it gives us a little bit of an idea of, well, |
| 1:06.7 | what else should we be looking at for the rest of us? |
| 1:09.1 | So before I jump in to the conversation with |
| 1:11.2 | Dr. Rutland, I just want to show you something real quick. We just heard from the CDC that |
| 1:16.2 | flu arrived early. We had indications of that, but the CDC now is talking about it a little bit more |
| 1:21.8 | specifically. And what you get from the CDC on a regular basis are these maps. And I just recorded this. This is over the last |
| 1:29.1 | two, three weeks. And you can see, you're going to see the beginning of flu season, which most of |
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