“All my grandbabies, all my daughters and their families have had all of this stuff. We just keep sharing it back and forth,” said Calgarian Ross Gilker about his experience with this year’s cold and flu season.
“It’s the gift that keeps on giving.”
A persistent cough and congestion lingering for weeks are just some of the symptoms others told Global News they have experienced.
“My friends, several of them say they got sick over the holidays and it made their Christmas a little more quiet and at home,” said Rob MacDonald.
According to the Alberta government’s respiratory virus dashboard, cases of influenza, COVID and RSV in the province are all on the rise.
The latest numbers show between Dec. 22 and 28 there were 701 cases of the flu, 574 cases of respiratory syncytial visus (RSV) and 376 of COVID.
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Mathieu Giroux, a pharmacist at Cambrian Pharmacy in Calgary, told Global News the …