The prevalence of influenza A virus, influenza B virus, RS virus and COVID-19 was high during the winter and the situation was generally at its worst in December. Now FHM states that the season is over.
– The prevalence of both influenza A and B is now believed to have dropped to a low level, and the epidemic is believed to be over for the season. During December 2022, we faced a stressful situation, when influenza, RS virus and covid-19 reached high levels at the same time. During each period of increased infection spread, there are people who become seriously ill, but this winter was the first time we had a simultaneous peak with all three diseases, Anasara Carnahan, an epidemiologist and researcher at the Public Health Agency, tells the papers. launch.
Many children require intensive care
More people with RS virus required care in the intensive care unit than in the years before the pandemic. 30 percent of those receiving IVA care were children under one year of age.
– There were two winters with many young children, which is probably related to the fact that there were few RS cases during the first winter of the epidemic. There have been many young children who have not yet been infected with RS, Anasara Karnahan says, and therefore have a high susceptibility to infection.
The spread of Covid-19 has decreased since its peak in December, but it is still going strong.
“People aged 80 or older and people living in a SÄBO (special accommodation for the elderly), an additional dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 is recommended before summer,” the FHM writes.
Even winter sickness levels have recently dropped and are past the peak. There were also “relatively many cases”.
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