Virus outbreaks around the globe have made the world stand on the verge of facing Tripledemic. Tripledemic is an epidemic of three separate diseases occurring at the same time. First of all Covid cases are again being seen in different countries. SARS-CoV-2 virus is being accompanied by some other outbreaks. In the USA , Europe and Asia the flu virus and a third dangerous pathogen—the respiratory syncytial virus are spreading like wildfire.

Your chance of getting infected

According to NBC News, "If you’ve been exposed to someone who has tested positive for Covid, symptoms from any of the omicron subvariants generally appear two to four days later. 

How contagious you are is connected to how much of the virus, known as the viral load, is in your body. Your viral load will likely peak soon after the start of symptoms, according to Dr. Chanu Rhee, an infectious disease physician and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. This means you are likely most contagious a day or so before symptoms appear and during at least the first two or three days after. 

As your immune system reduces your viral load, your infectiousness should decline in tandem."

Other viruses

According to The Daily Beast, "Add another monkeypox or bird flu outbreak, and we might even experience a “quadrupledemic.” Besides potentially overwhelming health systems, the simultaneous outbreaks come with another troubling risk. Research indicates they might actually make each other worse."

Figures

According to The Guardian, "A “tripledemic” of Covid, RSV and flu is bad news for adult hospital wards: even in a normal year, an estimated 60,000 to 120,000 older adults are hospitalised and 6,000 to 10,000 of them die from RSV in the US alone."

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