Dailymail.com By Harriet Alexander 6/14/2022
Children are being infected with up to THREE viruses at a time because COVID measures have worn down their immune systems and made them vulnerable to illnesses usually only caught in winter, experts warn
• Health experts across the United States have told The Washington Post that they are seeing children with multiple viral infections at once
• As the weather warms doctors usually see a decrease in the prevalence of influenza and other viruses associated with the common cold
• Now some children are arriving at their doctor's office with three viral infections at a time
• Experts believe that it is a result of COVID pandemic policies, which meant children were not exposed to the normal array of viruses
Children are turning up in doctors' clinics infected with as many as three different types of viruses, in what experts believe is the result of their immune systems being weakened from two years of COVID lockdowns and mask-wearing.
Medical staff have come to expect a surge in cases of flu and severe colds during the winter.
But they are reporting that there is not the usual downturn as summer approaches - and they suspect it could be due to the strict pandemic practices.
Furthermore, some of common strains of the flu appear to have disappeared, flummoxing scientists.
Thomas Murray, an infection-control expert and associate professor of pediatrics at Yale, told The Washington Post on Monday that his team was seeing children with combinations of seven common viruses - adenovirus, rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), human metapneumovirus, influenza and parainfluenza, as well as the coronavirus.
Some children were admitted with two viruses and a few with three, he said.
'That's not typical for any time of year and certainly not typical in May and June,' he said.
CDC data obtained by DailyMail.com showed lower overall levels of influenza infections among young children - but an abnormal surge starting several weeks ago during the beginning of the summer months, normally a dead period for respiratory infections.
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