Feeling sick? How to know if you have COVID, RSV or the flu - New York Post

After years of isolating and masking, influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are all hitting harder and earlier this cold season in a phenomenon that’s been dubbed a “tripledemic.”.

New York State has seen over 141,000 cases in the last month, and, over the weekend, the Centers for Disease Control placed five New York counties — Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Nassau and Suffolk — in the “orange zone,” signaling a high risk of COVID and a recommendation to mask indoors.

But over the last two years, these kids who are now two- to four-year-olds have never seen RSV,” Mora told The Post.

“So you have a whole new crop of little ones — plus bigger ones as well too — that have never seen RSV.”.

David Hirschwerk, medical director of Manhasset’s North Shore University Hospital and infectious disease specialist for Northwell Health told The Post that fewer precautions are simply making for an uptick in cases.

Getting a flu shot is the optimal solution to combatting the virus, according to Hirschwerk.

As if we all need a reminder, COVID-19 is a respiratory virus that originated in late 2019.

An albuterol inhaler can also be used to treat more severe cases that don’t require hospitalization.

Severe cases of wheezing and a dry cough might also warrant an inhaler prescribed with albuterol