“One bit of good news just in the last week — we’ve seen RSV peaked and maybe turn down,” Jha advised host Martha Raddatz. “I’m obviously hopeful that that trend is going to continue.”

Anthony Fauci, the retiring head of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the general public face of America’s Covid-19 response, agreed that RSV could also be peaking. But talking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” he stated: “You never want to be overconfident.”

Fauci stated he’s additionally cautiously optimistic concerning the state of Covid-19 subsequent yr, and the concept that vaccines could possibly be “neatly” taken yearly.

“But that doesn’t take into account that you have to keep up the possibility that we will get a variant that’s very different than the variants we have right now,” Fauci stated.

The present boosters “hold up well” in opposition to a subvariant of Covid-19 rising in Massachusetts, BQ.1.1, “and other subvariants we’re seeing,” Jha stated. The nation’s up to date booster fee was 11.3 % as of final week, when Fauci appeared in his final White House briefing.

Fauci additionally lamented, as he has earlier than, the concept that vaccination and different components of public well being coverage have develop into so politicized.

He requested: “Why would you ever want to see that red states are undervaccinated and blue states are pretty well vaccinated and there are more deaths among red-state Republicans than there are among blue states’ Democrats?”