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Citing the tripledemic of respiratory illnesses, Lee Health's chief officer for hospital operations says patient volume is nearing 100%. Alternatives to the ER include urgent care centers or telehealth.

As public health departments work on improving their message, the skepticism and mistrust often reserved for COVID-vaccines now threaten other priorities, including flu shots and childhood vaccines.

RSV and the flu appear to be receding in the U.S., but COVID is on the rise, new data suggests, driven by holiday gatherings and an even more transmissible omicron subvariant that has become dominant.

Facing shortages of critical care beds, medication and frontline staff amid the onslaught of RSV, COVID and the flu, hospitals serving Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska are collaborating to get children the treatment they need.

Walgreens will limit online orders of children's fever and pain medicine to six items "to help support availability and avoid excess purchases." At CVS stores, purchases will be limited to two.

Pediatric cases of RSV and flu have sent families crowding into ERs, as health systems struggle with staff shortages. In Michigan, only 9 out of more than 130 hospitals have a pediatric ICU.

Cases of COVID, flu and RSV continue to rise in parts of Florida yet COVID is the only of the three viruses to have a commercial at-home test kit.

NPR asked a handful of public health experts how to approach a holiday season with not one but three respiratory pathogens helping fill hospitals: COVID, the flu and RSV.

The flu, COVID-19 and RSV are spreading. On "South Florida Roundup," Cleveland Clinic Weston’s head of infectious diseases, Dr. Carla McWillams, has some tips to stay healthy.

The @CDCgov latest community level map indicates that over 9% of counties in the country were considered to have a high risk of infection. None were in Florida.