Virus Briefing: R.S.V. cases are rising

What you need to know about the respiratory syncytial virus.

View in browser|nytimes.com October 31, 2022 Here's your update on the coronavirus pandemic and other virus news. Getty Images R.S.V. Cases Are Rising. Here's What You Need to Know Before the Covid pandemic, most people caught respiratory syncytial virus before the age of 2. Now things have changed. By Knvul Sheikh FROM TIMES OPINION Carolina Moscoso Guest Essay A Plea for Making Virus Research Safer A way forward for lab safety. By Jesse Bloom Damon Winter/The New York Times David Wallace-Wells Pandemic Learning Loss Is Not an Emergency In a vacuum, test score declines look like bad news. But none of this happened in a vacuum. By David Wallace-Wells María Jesús Contreras Guest Essay A Dolphin, a Porpoise and Two Men Got Bird Flu. That's a Warning to the Rest of Us. One-off infections are still meaningful. By David Quammen What else we're following Shanghai Disney locked its gates and required visitors to show a negative Covid test before leaving, the BBC reports. Workers fled the Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, China, during an extended Covid lockdown, Reuters reports. A complex and diverse "variant soup" is complicating efforts to track the latest Covid outbreak, Nature reports. A lab experiment showed that R.S.V. and influenza can fuse together to create a new hybrid virus, the Guardian reports. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the C.D.C., experienced a Covid rebound after completing a course of the antiviral drug Paxlovid, Reuters reports. U.S. hospitalizations from the flu have hit a decade-plus high, The Wall Street Journal reports. All poultry and captive birds in England must be kept indoors starting Nov. 7 to stem the country's largest-ever outbreak of bird flu, the BBC reports. Email your thoughts to virusbriefing@nytimes.com. Did a friend forward you the briefing? Sign up here. Need help? Review our newsletter help page or contact us for assistance. You received this email because you signed up for Virus Briefing from The New York Times. To stop receiving these emails, unsubscribe or manage your email preferences. Subscribe to The TimesGet The New York Times app Connect with us on: Change Your EmailPrivacy PolicyContact UsCalifornia Notices The New York Times Company. 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018