01-23-25 YMS Virus season is upon us, and people from coast-to-coast are feeling lousy. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL explains what is being called a “quad-demic” of illness.

 Virus season is upon us, and people from coast-to-coast are feeling lousy. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL explains what is being called a “quad-demic” of illness. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael dil Choonah.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Thanks for waking up with your morning show. I'm Michael
del jorner. Our national correspondent. Rory O'Neil is here. Viruses
are upon us. If you're not feeling well, you're not alone.
It's pretty much sweeping the nation. I just got over mine, Rory.
That means you're next. Oh great, thanks.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah. They're calling it a quad demic because there are
four different things out there, and this is I'm not
sounding an alert, I'm not flashing red. I'm just reminding
you that it's January. This is when this stuff happens.
But the numbers are going up and you're going to
find the emergency rooms may be full. Trying to see
your doctor may be difficult because we've got covid RSV

(00:41):
of course, the flu and this neural virus that really
started to pop up around the holidays.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
It's still lingering. And boy, if you get that one,
god bless you. Well.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's the four biggies, although that isn't what they think
I had. Mine was the how do you say it
in perine influenza, perry influenza, I think it was, which
is like an adult crew and I had it, my
daughter had it, Nick had a version of it. You

(01:12):
know everybody's you know, biology reacts differently. But it was
nasty and it was it's every bit of three weeks
and two really bad weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
But that wasn't you know, I said I had the
flu shot. This hasn't covered in that. So I mean,
I think there's more than just those four out there.
I guess that's my point. Well, I'm living proof there's
more than that. And when I got to the Vandy
Klinick and I walked in the waiting room, I looked around.
I never saw anything like they all. It was like
in that scene and outbreak, you know, where they all
have the little red nose and you're like, okay, you
tested positive, stand on the front porch, were coming to

(01:45):
get you. Everybody had the same cough, everybody had the
same look. Our room was filled with people what I
had and that and nobody thinks it was RSV.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Nobody thought it was any of those others. So I
don't know. There might be even more than four. Good luck,
but it was nasty.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Wash yeah, wash your hands is the message even better
than those antibacterial gel things soap and water, especially for
stopping the neural virus.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Rooms to be more effective than the UH, than the
than the gels.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
So please, you know one thing we did learn during
COVID that when we were all practicing better hygiene, it
did stop the spread or flu.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
So try to do what you can to take care.
The washing. The interesting one of all those that I
need to run.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
But the interesting one of all those is the washing
of the hands versus sanitizers for neurovirus. And why I
don't know, but obviously washing your hands frequently and not
touching your face that's the key this time of the year.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I must have touched my face again. It happens this
time of year. The numbers are and the numbers are
going up, and that's what we're seeing now. Like you said,
it's starting to I don't want to say overwhelm, but
it's certainly putting a strain on.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Doctors offices and ers across the country.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, Roy, and you'll be back next half hour with
a story that fascinates me.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
On we're all.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Living paycheck paycheck to paycheck, so where we you know,
putting our money? I can't wait to hear the answer
for that that'll be the third hour.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
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Churno