Childhood illnesses are part of life, but parents do not expect their children to need a hospital admission due to seasonal sickness. Yet the spike in cases of RSV, flu and cold is causing exactly that.
Eastern Shore hospitals have not been immune to the fall bringing its usual bevy of illnesses when temperatures get cooler, but some local hospitals have already started surge planning for the rise in the number of hospital admissions. Dr. Lauren McGovern, a pediatrician at TidalHealth Peninsula Regional hospital, estimates only 5-10% of childhood RSV cases require a transfer to Washington, D.C.’s Children’s National Hospital, but notes all parents should stay vigilant about possible severity.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms. According to McGovern, most children will start to improve after 3-5 days.
For others like Brooke Day, a Salisbury mother of three, an RSV diagnosis for one of her then-eight-month-old twin sons was the beginning of a steep decline in his breathing and being airlifted to Children’s National. It was there she saw the reality of an outright pandemic, with areas of the hospital being converted into makeshift RSV units.
China & Democrats put out RSV / & Covid / & Monkey Pox
Perfect timing right before the elections again, let’s see they have Pelosi’s husband beat up what is next oh yeah World War 3 of course they are lining up over overseas but your News won’t tell you until it is too late. lol
101st Airborne was deployed to eastern Europe last week. What do think is next readers?
Why don’t you say how many of those brilliant and loving parents FORCED their kids to take a shot that was, and is, an experimental drug, all in order to show what “goot ci-di-zens” they were.
Poor kids.
This stuff is going to get worse and worse, just a dozens of world class scientists warned us….
Trust the science???? LOL! THEY trusted POLITICIANS. Now, their kids are dying.