‘Prepare for uncertainty’: Common infections return after COVID-19 disruptions

Providers should “prepare for uncertainty” as common infections such as respiratory syncytial virus and enterovirus return in atypical seasons following disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, experts said.
Kevin Messacar, MD, PhD, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Children's Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado School of Medicine and co-author of a new commentary in The Lancet, recalled seeing cases of RSV months out of season, in the spring.
“I remember being down in the laboratory where we report the overnight results, and it started with a

Providers should “prepare for uncertainty” as common infections such as respiratory syncytial virus and enterovirus return in atypical seasons following disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, experts said.
Kevin Messacar, MD, PhD, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Children’s Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado School of Medicine and co-author of a new commentary in The Lancet, recalled seeing cases of RSV months out of season, in the spring.
“I remember being down in the laboratory where we report the overnight results, and it started with a