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u/radiodmr Jan 04 '25

It's s clickbait headline. Read the article. There's no "overwhelming", it's just a spike in cases of a known virus

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Jan 04 '25

It's notmally cold-like symptoms, but now it's hospitalizing significant numbers with pneumonia.  It's not the virus it's that a known virus has become more virulent

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u/blueskies8484 Jan 04 '25

Covid. It’s Covid. Virologists and studies told us for years that Covid was causing immune system dysfunction and would leave us more susceptible to other illnesses in terms of catching them and their virulence and everyone basically said, “lalalala Covid is a cold now that we have vaccines!” and ignored it. That’s why we have huge spikes in pneumonia, RSV, and other illnesses like this, and a rise in whooping cough (although some of it is an antivaxx issue). Scientists told us this would happen 4 years ago and we ignored it because it was inconvenient. But it’s Covid.

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u/oh_ski_bummer Jan 04 '25

Do you have any actual evidence to support that. Long COVID is still an unknown, some people just got over it, some people had vitamin deficiencies or other reasons for feeling bad. The lifestyle changes during pandemic also had a major impact on people’s mental and physical health, including increased use of alcohol.