Dr. Jha: A ‘tripledemic’ could hit the U.S., but ‘we’re not powerless against it’

Covid has been a prominent winter threat during the last two years and is expected to wreak havoc again this year, especially with the emergence of so-called “Scrabble” variants that appear adept at evading immunity from vaccines and prior infection.

The U.S. is also seeing an early uptick in flu cases, which don’t typically rise until late December. The country’s South Central and Southeastern regions already have positive rates as high as 10%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Jha pointed to the widely available vaccines targeting two of the three respiratory viruses: the flu shot and the new omicron-specific Covid booster.

More at source: CNBC

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