Emergency departments in New Jersey are seeing more patients with respiratory illness.
It’s that time of year again, when Dr. Andy Anderson starts seeing more patients with a cough, congestion, and shortness of breath — telltale signs of the highly contagious respiratory illness RSV.
The highly contagious virus currently accounts for .6% of all emergency department visits in the country and nearly 1% of all visits in New Jersey, according to CDC’s Respiratory Illness Data Channel. The state is seeing a growing number of emergency visits with RSV that required hospital admission, especially in among ages 0-4.“For any children’s hospital, winter is typically a busy respiratory season. That’s when hospitals have an influx of children that have COVID, RSV, flu or other illnesses,” said Dr. Harpeet Pall, chair of pediatrics at K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center.
“There has been so much misinformation and politicization of vaccines. So, I take all that off the table and simply talk to patients about their risks and the benefits of vaccines,” said Dr. Suraj Kumar Saggar, chief of the department of infectious disease at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck.
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