January 18, 2023 – Since early 2020, the word pandemic has been a part of our everyday vernacular. Even after almost three years, the pandemic is technically still not over, just entering new phases.
In the last few years, those phases have been variants that were more or less contagious than the previous iterations. Each new wave posed a threat to the uninfected and unvaccinated, perpetuating stages of social distancing. As we spent more time isolated from each other, we weakened our immune systems to infectious respiratory illnesses like the common cold and the flu.
As social distancing has largely fallen to the wayside, the positive cases for the flu have skyrocketed, leading experts to predict a more contagious flu season than the last could of years. Now, some infectious disease experts have forecasted what could be the next phase of pandemic – the tripledemic.
Read more in the latest issue of Repertoire Magazine.