A virus with no vaccine and no treatment is spreading across California, doctors say. Hunter Sowards provides the details and what you can do to help prevent...
chat, you have to tell me this is alarmism or clickbait or something
Young children, older adults and people with weakened immune systems face the greatest risk of serious illness
If you’ve been getting Covid, that’s you. Wear a mask. This isn’t rocket science, it’s basic math. More vulnerable people leads to more infections, more infections leads to more opportunities to spread to vulnerable people, etc, etc. It’s a feedback loop and it’s leading to an increase in the spread of freaking everything.
I saw human metapneumo plenty of times when I worked pediatrics, no idea why its coming up now. We had a big wave a couple years ago too.
Its little known to like the regular public but thats cause its like RSV for healthy adults - you get an annoying cough and feel vaguely bad for a while. It hits kids and elderly hard, of course, and anyone immunocompromised. The pneumo part is because it often leads to secondary bacterial pneumonia.
Im a little surprised its being reported on at all tbh
I caught a particularly bad strain once when I worked on an Infectious Diseases ward. Way before COVID19, we had a suspect TB case that turned out just to be HMPV in a traveler. The senior registrar was like “it’s fine we can stop all mask precautions it’s just human meta pneumo virus!”, a week later there was barely any doctors, nurses or allied health left to turn up. I’ve only ever been that sick when I’ve had covid19 or influenza.
Its a known possible nosocomial infection risk, air droplets and surface to mouth/eyes contamination if I remember it right. It makes it annoying to gown up and put the full ppe on.
This is a bit alarmist but it is also real, they are talking about HMPV its like a different version of RSV I think. I think this article explains it a bit more. https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/a-little-known-respiratory-virus-human-metapneumovirus-surging-in-northern-california/2026/03
If you’ve been getting Covid, that’s you. Wear a mask. This isn’t rocket science, it’s basic math. More vulnerable people leads to more infections, more infections leads to more opportunities to spread to vulnerable people, etc, etc. It’s a feedback loop and it’s leading to an increase in the spread of freaking everything.
I saw human metapneumo plenty of times when I worked pediatrics, no idea why its coming up now. We had a big wave a couple years ago too.
Its little known to like the regular public but thats cause its like RSV for healthy adults - you get an annoying cough and feel vaguely bad for a while. It hits kids and elderly hard, of course, and anyone immunocompromised. The pneumo part is because it often leads to secondary bacterial pneumonia.
Im a little surprised its being reported on at all tbh
I caught a particularly bad strain once when I worked on an Infectious Diseases ward. Way before COVID19, we had a suspect TB case that turned out just to be HMPV in a traveler. The senior registrar was like “it’s fine we can stop all mask precautions it’s just human meta pneumo virus!”, a week later there was barely any doctors, nurses or allied health left to turn up. I’ve only ever been that sick when I’ve had covid19 or influenza.
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Its a known possible nosocomial infection risk, air droplets and surface to mouth/eyes contamination if I remember it right. It makes it annoying to gown up and put the full ppe on.