action. We reached out to the
landlord and the leasing
company ourselves and we
haven’t heard back yet.
>> All right, to your health
this Monday morning. You know,
last winter, the U.S. faced
what they called, what we call
the triple Demic. So as a
respiratory illness circulating
RSV plus the flu.
>> Plus, COVID. But here’s the
deal. RSV is an issue this
summer. Haley is here to tell
us a little more about that.
>> Yeah, isn’t that crazy?
So a local doctor says that
she’s already seeing signs of
She was in the Clear Lake area.
And traditionally, we know that
this is not a summer virus, but
the pandemic has really thrown
viral patterns. Also joining
us to discuss the new RSV
vaccine for people 60 and
older. Doctor David Persse,
chief medical officer with the
City of Houston. Good morning.
Doctor purse. Good morning,
Ali. So, you know, we typically
think of RSV as a virus that
makes it difficult for babies
to breeze. But what exactly
is RSV who can be affected by
it.
>> Yeah. RSP respiratory
syncytial virus is very common.
Usually causes cold-like
symptoms in most people who
are, in fact with our speed
will experience a mild illness
mojo recover with one to 2
infants, young children and
older adults, those with
chronic heart and lung disease.
You know, those living nurse
goes on to care facilities or
the immunocompromised for
whatever reason, there are
higher risk for a much more
severe illness because of the
RC infection are. So you can
also years and brought to you
like this. And this is where
folks have one up being
hospitalized. In fact, every
year we see
between 60 and 160,000
hospitalizations here, United
States from RSV and 14 of those
folks get hospitalized between
6 10,000 of the one who are
adults. We’ll pass away as
result of this infection.
Well, can you can you tell us
what are some of the symptoms
are the symptoms different
between children and adults?
>> So what that really did so
generally owes it starts off.
And it’s you get about 46 days
after you’re exposed, you know,
symptoms. That’s one problem.
Talk with that minute. it’s
a simple cold like symptoms,
runny noses and decreased
appetite, coughing, sneezing,
fever, or wheezing. And just
>> generally feeling crummy.
That’s how John early starts.
Like I said, most people will
recover from that. Some people,
unfortunately go out and have a
much more severe illness and
dissenters. the person is
usually contains for 3 a 8 days
and they may, in fact, become
continues before the show.
Symptoms of this was really
difficult to stop this virus.
It was like something ever
since. We only can spread it to
show symptoms. People could
watch the show sent to
isolating themselves. They
didn’t spread it, but
unfortunately are as many as
one of the people versus the
review will spread it before
you show symptoms, making it
more difficult. And, you know,
vaccines would be really
helpful in this case. I’m like
you mentioned some tested.
You can get confirmed our city
a virus, but they’re all from a
health care professional going
to be over the counter ones
yet. So if you think you’ve got
you need to get all your
doctor, your medical home and
get a point about getting
tested.
>> Yeah. And so when are they
going to have that vaccine to
and who would be eligible for
it to, you know, to know more
about the vaccine.
>> Yes. So first of all, the
good news is an exciting news
that we know this year for the
first time. We’re going to have
some vaccines available to them
for RSV and they’ll be
available on the ball just in
time for this fall The viral
season that we’re going to see
this fall. And they will be
available. Come into one is
made by
Pfizer is called Rizzo and the
others by Glaxo Smith Kline
called a wreck city. So I would
recommend the folks that’s
particularly an issue for
people over the age of 60 at
this point. So for those over
the age of 16, particularly if
you’re over 60, knew that heart
disease, you’ve gotten no
compromise situation. Talk to
your doctor and Consider
getting a vaccine against RSV.
Not only will you protect
yourself, but again, like with
all that, you then reduce the
chance to his right to somebody
else like it in front of your
grandchild as an example, you
don’t want to get sick with
this virus.
>> Yeah, the young and the old
sometimes are in close contact
just like that. So do you
predict that this season is
going to be bad? I mean, we saw
a really awful RSV season last
year. Do you think that this
season’s going to be anything
like that?
>> Well, you know, it’s been
one thing I learned through
this pandemic is if you want to
make a mistake, make a
prediction, right? So that the
COVID he’s thrown the whole
viral Timelines off we’ve seen
are as we in the summer, which
we like almost never saw that
before. We had a couple years
like almost no flu fall by your
lots of loot. It’s really hard
to predict. But as things are
starting to normalize COVID,
he’s coming down. It’s not
gone. But it’s it’s it’s
influences coming Doing.
Just want to go back to what
was the normal pattern. So I do
expect just and at least a new
normal RSV season. But we have
seen some pretty better C
seasons and just last couple
years and they were the wrong
time of year. So it’s hard to
predict, but I would count on
us having our city, but this
for sure.
>> All right. And then that’s
the time to ask your doctor
about the new vaccine. So thank
you, doctor purse for
enlightening us about that.