“This is the time of year for respiratory ailments. Cases of flu, COVID, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are progressively rising nationwide.
As we spend more time inside and get together with friends and family to enjoy the holidays. Additionally, anecdotal reports of a severe, persistent cough have increased.
Everyone appears to have “a hacking cough that’s been going on for weeks,” as one TikTok user described it. It has also caught the attention of physicians across.
Dr. Scott Braunstein, the national medical director of Sollis Health and a double-board certified internal medicine and emergency medicine physician, told HuffPost,
“We have been seeing an unusually large number of patients who had typical viral upper respiratory infections, but have had a lingering cough that has lasted weeks to months.”
