A Michigan pediatric hospital is reporting it is completely full due to a surge of cases linked to respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
The Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., in an image from Google Street View 2020.C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor -- which is about 44 miles west of Detroit -- said it has seen 259 children sick with RSV this season, a 46% spike from the same number seen this time last year.
"We have been 100% full, I think we're going on our sixth week, and RSV seems to have emerged earlier this year and in higher numbers this year," Luanne Thomas Ewald, chief operating officer at Mott Children's Hospital, told ABC News. "And the fact that we're already full is concerning to us because we're just starting to see flu in our emergency room."
In Michigan, the 5-week average of positive RSV tests has increased from 95.7 the week ending Oct. 1 to 257 the week ending Oct. 29, the latest date for whichBecause of this, officials say wait times in the emergency department at Mott Children's Hospital are much longer than usual.
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