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Its officially football season, soup season, and sweater season.
Often, RSV doesn’t require treatment and the infected person simply heals at home without seeking medical attention.
So why are we checking in on RSV predictions like its awards season?
Thanks to the chaos of the pandemic, the timing and level of RSV surges have been in flux.
COVID disrupted the seasonality.
In 2021, RSVbegan to circulatein late spring, much earlier than the typical autumnal surge.
This disruption was thought to be due to a few factors, Gover explains.
One factor is that spread during normal seasonality was disrupted by masking, isolation, and closures.
The next factor was an increase in the pool of susceptible hosts.
The agency reports this suggests a reversion toward pre-pandemic seasonality with winter peaks.
And of course, if youre feeling sick yourself, stay home.
