This cold and flu season has been particularly rough, with rates of RSV, the flu and new COVID variants on the rise and exacerbated by the shortage in children’s medications.
A mother of five in New York is alerting parents to the dangers of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) after a recent outbreak infected three of her daughters and led to hospitalization for one of them.
A new study estimates that 1 in 50 deaths of healthy children under age 5 worldwide is due to respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, which is currently surging in the US. In high-income countries, researchers estimate that 1 in 56 babies who are born on time and are healthy will be hospitalized with RSV in the first year of life.