{"id":29976,"date":"2022-12-17T19:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=29976"},"modified":"2022-12-17T19:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:03:03","slug":"is-everyone-you-know-sick-explaining-winters-early-rush-of-illness-and-if-it-will-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2022\/12\/17\/is-everyone-you-know-sick-explaining-winters-early-rush-of-illness-and-if-it-will-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Is everyone you know sick? Explaining winter&#8217;s early rush of illness &#8211; and if it will continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usa news: And yes, it may have something to do with the fact that many people have been wearing masks and avoiding others for the past two-plus years.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say there are a host of factors influencing the current misery, including chance, the specifics of the immune system and direct and indirect effects of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid getting a cold or the flu, experts say the same strategies that worked during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic still work, and layering them will be more effective than just doing one.<br \/>\nWhy are so many people sick right now?<br \/>\nViral outbreaks naturally vary, with some years worse than others, but COVID-19 certainly effected the natural patterns, said Dr. Ofer Levy, a pediatric infectious disease specialist who directs the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems very likely to me that everything that happened with the pandemic with travel, etc, has altered some of these patterns,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usa news: And yes, it may have something to do with the fact that many people have been wearing masks and avoiding others for the past two-plus years. Researchers say there are a host of factors influencing the current misery, including chance, the specifics of the immune system and direct and indirect effects of the pandemic. To avoid getting a cold or the flu, experts say the same strategies that worked during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic still work, and layering them will be more effective than just doing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29978,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29976\/revisions\/29978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}