Huh. Is there a respiratory virus running around NYC right now?

[politicat]

I listen to a couple Slate podcasts, plus some NPR-associated ones, and noticed today that every single podcast had someone out sick and someone broadcasting with ick. Rachel mentioned being ill last night. Sounds a little like campaign crud, but this is generally the wrong season for a respiratory virus.

I realize we have a toddler with his sticky fingers near the football, and thus we're all kinda distracted, and all the damn plants are having as much open-air sex as they can, so allergies are up... but has anyone heard anything?

I add that we've got a nasty crud running around Front Range CO, that seems to have been imported from the East Coast, given our local Patient Zero.

[Purple Dinger]

1. Hope it doesn't hit me..

I've been a good boy!! Live in the FR area too, southeast side.

[politicat]

2. NW side here. Wash your hands!

That's always good advice.

And welcome to DU!

[Horse with no Name]

3. Will Pitt is deathly ill too

Makes you wonder....

[politicat]

5. Yikes. Respiratory is no joke.

Ever.

Okay, I'm going deep dive CDC/public health now. A bunch of broadcasters, journalists, and data scientists. There's gotta be a commonality.

[AJT]

4. My husband and I thought he had a respiratory virus that

our doctor said was going around and lasted a long time. He began coughing up some blood and could hardly get out of bed. After a month he weighed 126 lbs, then the doctor sent us to a pulmonary doctor. The doctor ordered a CT scan and saw something in his upper right lobe. Soon after he got home from the pulmonary appointment he coughed up a lot of blood. The doctor sent him to the emergency room. His oxygen level was 70%. After days of testing, and one night where he nearly died, they determined it was a fungal infection. My husband spent 12 days in the hospital, is on oxygen and will have to take an anti-fungal medication for a year. After insurance the medication is $1000 a month. Don't assume a cough that keeps hanging on is just a chest cold.

[politicat]

6. Thanks for that reminder, and I'm so sorry to hear that.

Take care, both of you, and if you need soup or casseroles... you'd be surprised what can be organized.

[AJT]

12. Thank you, that's so nice. He is getting better every day.

[Break time]

7. I don't know about NY

But I am in Oregon and there is a nasty one going around here..really nasty..

[politicat]

9. Yep. CDC is tracking two that are spiking.

Parainfluenza and metapneumonic.

So the PSA - if you start feeling crappy, don't self-care this shit. Grab a mask, go to urgent care, wash your hands, lay in fluids, try to stay home if at all possible.

[Break time]

13. Too late

I got it a week ago 4 days of pure hell coughing and gasping to breathe,coughing so hard it caused vomiting like whooping cough, wife got it and still not over it if not better by Mon. going in...

[politicat]

14. Go sooner if you can. Seriously.

I'm so sorry.

Jedi hugs and virtual soup.

[Break time]

16. I am pretty much past it

But wife has been pretty bad, we just discussed and and are going in first thing ...We are what they call "elderly" ....

[politicat]

17. Thank you. Good luck! NT

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Allergies?

[politicat]

10. CDC is showing a couple spikes on respiratory viruses.

https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/nrevss/index.html

Parainfluenza and metapneumovirus are up, both regionally and nationally.

My bet (though I'm not an epidemiologist) is on Para. Timing is right.

[hrmjustin]

11. I hope I don't get it.

I live in NYC and have asthma, and respiratory bugs make my life a living hell.

[politicat]

15. Asia has this right -- wear a mask.

Wash your hands. Don't touch your face. If you start feeling bad, get care. Viral means antibiotics are useless, but there's supportive care, and your lungs already have stress.

I've got difficult lungs, too. Respiratories suck.

[mnhtnbb]

18. We were just in NYC last Saturday, May 20, up to New Haven 2 nights, back to NYC

on the 23rd overnight and flew home to North Carolina on the 24th. Last night my husband said
he was coming down with a cold and by this morning he was coughing, sneezing, blowing his nose
and generally feeling like he definitely has a cold. He was also awake a lot during the night coughing.

So, yes, he picked up something on the trip and it was probably in NYC or on the train from NY to New Haven.