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They have a lot of similarities in all three of these, okay? you are looking at this from a health perspective. as a physician, someone walks into your office, can you tell what they have? >> yes. >> bill: really? >> ive been studying flu and covid for a long time and i know the difference. the strain of covid is presenting with a sore throat, fatigue and low grade fever. flu is higher fever. rsv is mostly respiratory congestion. those are differences. i can do rapid covid test. if im worried ab...

And in a hospital e.r. i can test for rsv and a rapid flu test we can use. when mark meredith says he cant find a mmoxiamoxicillin, i want caution that a lot of pediatricians overprescribe it. we dont use it for viruses. that has to be for strep or bacteria. >> dana: who is most at risk. at what point and severity to you take your child to the doctor or hospital? >> another excellent question. most at risk is the child under the age of six months. the infants for the reasons i said. they have ve...

I know this because there is a kid in my sons preschool class who just tested positive. of course im on high alert for this. tell us a little bit about hospital capacity and how hospitals are overwhelmed. do hospitals have the capacity to help all of these kids? we have seen warning signs of staffing shortages especially since the pandemic. >> definitely challenging. when you look at the last few weeks and influx of patients were seeing over 500 patients a day in our emergency room which is stre...

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This time theyre off because there was a very mild season down in australia. and then the third, that we dont -- we mixing it up with covid. like the symptoms are too similar. flu doesnt have the same nasal congestion as covid does but same body aches and weakness and fatigue and fever and seeing kids getting sick with the flu. two deaths have occurred already. flu hospitalizations are going on. all of this taken together, make it a lot harder on me as a clinician to decide whats the flu and wha...

Advisor. you are where cases are going up. do i understand that correctly? >> reporter: that is correct. lets start with saying last week there was a case of a young boy who tested positive for both the flu and covid-19 at this particular testing center in western los angeles. that sort of got a lot of attention, right? the media has been covering it. as you mentioned, its not a new disease, its not a virus, it just means a person has been infected with both, from what we were told. health offic...

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