During last winter's RSV season, a majority of infants in the ICU with RSV didn't have any underlying conditions.
overwhelmed pediatric hospitals with a surge of sick infants struggling to breathe as their lungs filled with secretions.
The virus is “super common” and most kids are infected by 2 years of age, she said, but the research suggests it can beIn the study, Halasa and a research team from across the U.S. looked at data on 600 infants from 39 hospitals in 27 states who were enrolled in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded RSV Pediatric Care registry.
The study’s senior investigator, Dr. Angela Campbell, of the CDC’s Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division, noted that while infants younger than 3 months and infants born prematurely were more likely to need intubation, most of the intubated infants in the study were born at term.Why last season was different
Early in the pandemic, cases of RSV and other respiratory viruses like flu dropped to low levels, thanks to mitigation measures such as mask wearing and social distancing, Campbell said. In 2021 and 2022, there were someBut it wasn’t until the end of 2022 that the virus really came roaring back, as many young children were exposed to RSV for the first time.
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