This winter, three major respiratory viruses — respiratory syncytial virus or R.S.V., the flu and the coronavirus — are poised to collide in the United States in what some health officials are calling a “tripledemic.”
What does this collision have to do with our response to the coronavirus pandemic, and why are children so far the worst affected?
Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter for The New York Times.
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