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At the end of 2022, health officials were warning of a kind of perfect storm of infectious disease: rising cases of flu, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Terms like "triple threat" and "tripledemic" were common, and with many American gathering for the holidays, health providers were bracing for the worst.

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