COVID, flu and RSV are overwhelming hospitals just as a pandemic surge briefly subsided. | via texasstandard
but really this is people with increased vulnerability, perhaps from a previous COVID-19 infection, getting much sicker from what may normally be considered a common cold.Listen to the interview with Dr. Khan in the player above or read the transcript below.Texas Standard: What are you seeing in San Antonio hospitals right now?
The children get very, very sick sometimes. It’s a very small percentage, maybe 1% or 2%. But that percentage is significant enough for the health care system, which already is having a hard time coping with a pandemic.Yeah, I think so. It’s across it because, you know, we work in a lot of southern counties. We work in transitioning of patients coming to San Antonio all the way from Del Rio to Laredo, Pearsall, Crystal City, and as well as going all the way into the Kenedy, Texas and Beeville.
In the last couple of weeks what we have seen, COVID is coming back causing respiratory problems, bilateral involvement of the lungs. But we had stopped seeing those. It had more become like the GI virus affecting the gastrointestinal tract. I think a combination of all those things. I think we do have very good preventative vaccines available. People are not utilizing that for flu. I think there has been hesitance about that.
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