Flu pandemic 'quaddemic' concerns... The biggest crisis during the Lunar New Year holiday [Anchor Report]

This is a post on a community.

There were one or two people coughing around, and now nearly half of the office workers show symptoms of a cold.
I went to the hospital
and waited 20 or 50 times. This kind of writing doesn't seem to be boring.

Following the recent flu, the number of COVID-19 patients has increased significantly, and the number of patients with respiratory diseases such as RSV and HMPV is also increasing rapidly.

It makes me feel scared that I might go back to COVID-19.
Beyond the
endemic or multi-demic, there is even a term called a quad-demic.

It means that the simultaneous epidemic of four infectious diseases is a situation of concern.

By the way, flu and Corona are relatively familiar, so what are RSV and HMPV?

Both RSV and HMPV show cold-like symptoms such as runny nose and cough.

Usually, infants and toddlers are infected, but if the symptoms worsen, it can cause pneumonia.

Prevention is currently the best situation because if you don't have a special treatment drug, you have to treat it only with symptomatic therapy.

According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's tally, the current number of flu patients has risen 13.7% compared to four weeks ago.

Experts fear the Lunar New Year holiday could be a variable later this month, saying the peak of the latest wave of respiratory illnesses is yet to come,

So even those who haven't been vaccinated should definitely be vaccinated.

[Kim So-ri/Professor of Respiratory Allergy at Chonbuk National University Hospital] Since the holidays are just around the corner, virus infections can explode if people break up and visit many crowded areas. So, we prepare for the risk of a quad pandemic. Don't think it's too late and make sure to get vaccinated will be one of the very useful prevention methods to prevent the quad pandemic.]