This has been reported in legitimate medical journals since you were 10 years old, in 1967, as you can see from the website for
The National Center for Biotechnology Information.
"Human enterovirus 68 (EV-D68) was first isolated from samples obtained in California in 1962 from four children with pneumonia and bronchiolitis (Schieble et al., 1967). Along with EV-D70, EV-D94 and EV-D-111, EV-D68 is one of four serotypes assigned to HEV-D. Unlike other enteroviruses, EV-D68 is acid-labile and biologically more similar to human rhinoviruses in being mainly associated with respiratory disease; however, until recently, reports of respiratory disease due to EV-D68 were rare (Oberste et al., 2004).
Between 1970 and 2005 only 26 clinical isolates of EV-D68 were reported in the USA, representing 0.1 % of all clinical EV isolates"
OLD NEWS, but new info for uninformed conspiracy nuts who don't know how to dig up information themselves.