Twindemic and tripledemic (or tridemic) were terms used during the COVID-19 pandemic, referring to the possibility of a severe flu season happening alongside an increase in cases of COVID-19 during the fall and winter of 2020 and 2021, as well as respiratory syncytial virus in the winter of 2022. A consequence of a twindemic may be a mixture of two different infections in the same person at the same time. The term twindemic is a portmanteau of "twin" and "pandemic". __TOC__
Twindemic and tripledemic (or tridemic) were terms used during the COVID-19 pandemic, referring to the possibility of a severe flu season happening alongside an increase in cases of COVID-19 during the fall and winter of 2020 and 2021, as well as respiratory syncytial virus in the winter of 2022. A consequence of a twindemic may be a mixture of two different infections in the same person at the same time. The term twindemic is a portmanteau of "twin" and "pandemic". __TOC__
==History== The term was used by an August 2020 article from The New York Times written by Jan Hoffman. In the article, Hoffman credited Dr. L.J. Tan of the Immunization Action Coalition as an "early promoter" of the possibility of a twindemic. After the publication of The Times' article, several media outlets began to report on the possibility of a twindemic. Health experts responded to the threat of a possible twindemic by encouraging more people to get the flu vaccine.
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