An unprecedented increase in cases of RSV is overwhelming hospitals and sending many young children to emergency rooms. Here, doctors offer advice for how to manage the surge:
But the COVID pandemic means that some children born over the past couple of years were never exposed to RSV.
The loosening of pandemic control measures coupled with a much more susceptible younger population is a “perfect storm” for this outbreak, he notes.Higgerson says she has been heartened by how hospitals in her area have come together, inviting patients to take free hospital beds on the rare occasions they become available.nursing and staffing shortages“We're opening some sections of the adult hospital, creating pediatric beds,” she says.
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