TORONTO -- As social distancing and travel restrictions relax amid declining COVID-19 infection rates, doctors are cautioning about a potential off-season resurgence of respiratory syncytial virus , which tends to affect infants and older adults.
According to the Lavoie and his colleagues, cases of RSV dropped sharply during the pandemic, as social distancing measures all but stopped its spread. In Canada, for instance, only 239 tests for RSV were positive between Aug. 29, 2020 and May 8, 2021, compared to 18,660 positive tests during the same period a year earlier.
While the majority of RSV cases involve no symptoms or just a mild illness, children born prematurely or with chronic lung or congenital heart disease are at higher risk. But according to the commentary, the lack of cases during the past year meant most pregnant women and very young infants were not able to develop immunity. This in turn puts young children potentially at risk for more severe illness this year.
With typically few to no cases in the summer, Lavoie noted, many antibody treatments are seasonal as well.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
Read the actual report. The media is trying to pump even more irrational fear.
Really?! What geniuses! When you live in a bubble and all of a sudden enter the real 🌍 . Happened in Israel, especially in children. Everything they missed during the winter flu season hit them when they came out of the isolation bubbles
This is the result of nonstop masking , yet you want more masking? Ffs get a clue
Our readership is slightly lower this week, so we have any good doom porn to publish?
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