Seasonal respiratory viruses can cause severe illness and hospitalizations in individuals with comorbidities.

“a seasonal cold can actually kill somebody who's medically fragile with comorbidities we see it every winter as hospitalists we admit it's an impending sense of doom it's like winter is coming every time in october we know that just standard flu standard seasonal cold the coronavirus stuff that we already have the adenoviruses even rsv in adults can cause a very nasty syndrome if you have a lot of comorbidities and it fills up our hospitals because the hospitals operate at capacity”