Since Covid, journalists have picked up an unhealthy new pastime, says Eugyppius: feverishly reporting on the incidence of normal winter viruses as though they are something alarming when they are no such thing.
The German Government plans to direct public health authorities to begin systematic monitoring of RSV and to "implement measures to prevent spread".
Faced with a 'severe' RSV outbreak and a possible imminent rise in flu cases, Chile has decided that all schoolchildren above the age of five must return to wearing a mask.
Despite anguished media declarations, there was no 'tripledemic' among Rhode Island children this autumn, says Dr Andrew Bostom. RSV alone accounted for 90% of hospitalisations while Covid admissions were almost zero.
