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US children's hospitals overwhelmed with RSV cases

US children’s hospitals overwhelmed with RSV cases

Los Angeles, California – “It looks like this endless, high-volume influx that keeps coming into our emergency department, or phone calls from outside hospitals that also burst into overdrive,” Hui-wen Sato, unit nurse from intensive care unit (ICU) at a Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, said of a recent increase in RSV cases. RSV, or …

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Long wait times, no beds: These states have the most comprehensive children's hospitals

Long wait times, no beds: These states have the most comprehensive children’s hospitals

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), COVID-19 and influenza continue to overwhelm healthcare systems in the United States, well before the traditional start of the peak influenza and RSV season. Currently, about three-quarters of hospital beds are already full in the United States, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services. COVID-19 cases have …

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