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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 ...
The Children's Hospital Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard on Dec. 9, 2020, in Los Angeles.

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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