Much more than a bad cold: Tracys frightening RSV story [Video]

(BPT) – Sponsored by GSK – When Tracy, a GSK patient advocate and 66-year-old retiree, started coughing, she assumed it was just her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) acting up again. Little did she know, it was the beginning of a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection.

For most people, RSV infections come with mild symptoms, like a runny nose, sneezing, or coughing, and go away on their own in a week or two. But for older adults like Tracy, who was 64 years old at the time, it can be much more serious, even life-threatening. “Everybody thinks it’s a cold, a bad cold,” Tracy said. “And it could be a lot worse than a bad cold.”

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