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Severe heart disease, for example. and it does work. and it does make it milder. but, no, that vaccine is yet to come. >> why are we seeing such a spike in, you know, some new children kind of flooding into the emergency rooms with rsv. and here in atlanta, you know, i've been speaking with the children's health care of atlanta, they're saying that the shift this week has been now a majority of flu cases. last week, it was rsv. but i know there's a lot of talk about the immunity gap, covid forcing a lot of people to wear masks. a lot of people still exposed to a lot of these virus, sometimes, ...

Have had on one's immune system, making you more susceptible. >> that makes so much sense. so flu season also, you know, ramping up early this year, and cdc data shows it's been more than a decade since flu hospitalization rates have been this high at this point in the season. do you apply the same kind of logic that you did for rsv? >> the burden of flu cases right now is actually a bit eyebrow raising. it hasn't been this bad since the 2009 h 1 n 1 pandemic. flu is hard to predict. in the southern hemisphere, if we use those countries as an example, australia had a sharp uptick in cases such...

“Usually we will see the flu more likely in the winter months,” Dr. Rani said. “Usually we’ll see it into December, January, February. But, since the pandemic, we’re seeing diseases out of season.”

The Department of Health and Human Services says more pediatric hospital beds are filled now than they have been since 2020.

Students called out sick. the school paper suggests a recent crowded school dance could have been a superspreader event. across a number of states, particularly in the south, confirmed flu cases are higher than usual for this early in the season. officials are urging people to gets their flu vaccines early, before the end of october. experts are predicting a rough few months ahead. >> it could be a really bad harbinger of the winter if that's also combined with a covid-19 surge. >> reporter: young children have also been hit especially hard by another virus, the culprit, a respiratory illness ...