The so-called 'tripledemic' is showing no sign of letting up. More and more kids and adults are coming down with COVID, the flu and RSV, and patients are flooding emergency rooms and pharmacies. NickJCaloway has the story from Paterson, N.J.
At Paramus Pharmacy, a steady stream of customers have been on the hunt for cold meds and COVID tests.
"We have more flu than we actually have COVID. Head congestion, things of that nature," one customer said.led pharmacist Manish Pujara to reinstate a mask mandate in the pharmacy. It's a pandemic-era relic he hoped was behind us.READ MOREThe trio of nasty viruses have been especially hard on kids. "These three have managed to coalesce into one big storm of infection," said Dr. David Goldberg, chief of the pediatric infectious disease service at St. Joseph's Health in Paterson."Thankfully, most of them have upper respiratory infections that can be treated at home or they can be treated symptomatically. But we are seeing, as other hospitals are, an increase in patients being admitted because of their respiratory illness," Goldberg said.
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