RSV straining children’s hospitals across California
LOS ANGELES — RSV and other respiratory viral illnesses are continuing to stress children’s hospitals across California. Nationally, hospitalization rates related to RSV — or respiratory syncytial virus — are exceptionally high, according to Dr. Theodore Ruel, chief of the University of California, San Francisco’s pediatric infectious diseases and global health division. The per capita RSV ...
by Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money, Los Angeles Times
Nov 28, 2022
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — RSV and other respiratory viral illnesses are continuing to stress children’s hospitals across California.
Nationally, hospitalization rates related to RSV — or respiratory syncytial virus — are exceptionally high, according to Dr. Theodore Ruel, chief of the University of California, San Francisco’s pediatric infectious diseases and global health division.
The per capita RSV hospitalization rate this month was the highest since the 2018-19 cold and flu season, Ruel said at a recent campus town hall. And while scientists are monitoring signs that RSV hospitalization rates may
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