Experts believe that another bacterium is assaulting and aggravating our respiratory systems, rather than the flu or COVID.
Internal medicine specialist Dr. Janet O’Mahony of Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, said that a number of her patients had lately visited her office.
With a bad cough that has persisted for about two weeks. Additionally, some individuals have experienced post-nasal drip, sore throats, and sinus congestion.
O’Mahony told HuffPost, “This chest cold has a real junky and persistent cough.” Their COVID and flu tests came back negative. She said that.
The fact that they are not reacting to medications indicates that the illness is “purely viral.” The illness is “caused by the regular viruses that cause colds like rhinovirus,
Non-COVID coronaviruses, or adenoviruses,” according to O’Mahony. Dr. Theodore Strange, an internal medicine specialist at Northwell Health,