Commentary: ‘Tripledemic’ of RSV, flu and COVID-19 reveals America’s broken child care system
An exhausted mother of four brought in her youngest child, not even 6 months old, to the doctor’s office where I was working for a barking, unending cough. The baby struggled to catch her breath and threw up her milk as she cried. Her test was positive for respiratory syncytial virus, and her mother, who was also now sick, wondered aloud about how she would be able to take time off from work.
When I lived in Missouri, I worked at a pediatric clinic, and such situations were
