Covid isn’t the only viral threat facing the U.S. this coming winter. A “tripledemic” also involving flu and RSV may soon unfold, says Dr. Ashish Jha.
But there’s good news: “We’re not powerless against it,” Jha, the White House’s Covid response coordinator, said in a Tuesday interview with CBS News.
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 positivity rates as high as 10%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.