RSV: Can be deadly for older adults. Information about symptoms and the new vaccine

RSV can be deadly—especially for older adults. Why aren’t more of them getting the new vaccine? About 6,000 to 10,000 people 65 and older die from RSV in the U.S. annually, the CDC says. Lindsey Leake Fortune

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“[RSV] can be very risky, but people are not as aware of it as a virus in itself,” Dr. Sujata Ambardar, an infectious disease specialist at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., tells Fortune. “They think of COVID, flu, and other viruses.”

Though Ambardar believes RSV awareness is on the rise, she says the existing lack of patient education—coupled with COVID- and flu-induced vaccine fatigue—may account for minimal interest in the trio of new RSV vaccines for people 60 and older.

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