By Caroline Kee
December 23, 2024
Source: TODAY
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Other experts agree that infections are expected to go up in the coming weeks.
"We anticipate that these holiday gatherings and traveling and all that will provide opportunities for an increase in COVID, as well as (influenza) and RSV,” Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, tells TODAY.com.
“It’s silent (transmission) because most of these infections are quite mild so people are not testing, or they’re blowing them off as a cold," Schaffner adds.
While this year's late summer COVID surge provided the U.S. population with some immunity, it's likely starting to wane, the experts say. And the current variants circulating, including XEC and the decedents of the FLiRT family, are highly transmissible.
"These current variants are causing a lot of milder infections, which are going largely undetected," says Schaffner, adding that people with mild or no symptoms can still spread the virus to others.
"The communicability of these viruses is contributing to a silent epidemic, if you will," says Schaffner.
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