Cold & Flu Season 2022-23: AAFP Board Chair Shares Concerns

"Well, we're a little bit concerned about what might happen over the next 3 to 4 months," said Sterling Ransone, Jr, MD, referring to the 2022-23 respiratory virus season now in its very early weeks. Ransone, who is board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), discusses what the AAFP and its members are most concerned about as the country prepares for a third season of cocirculating influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus—a season that will be largely void of the mitigation measures Ransone believes are the reason he has not seen "a single case of influenza come through his office" in 2 years. He also offers an AAFP refresher on the annual push-back from patients that is so familiar to family medicine practitioners.