RSV cases at Children’s Health reached a 2023 high last week as the year’s cold and flu season begins to pick up steam.
Gail Moore, 86 of Irving receives a Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccine from Prashant Sharma, CVS pharmacy manager, at CVS, in Irving, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023.RSV cases at Children’s Health reached a 2023 high last week as the year’s cold and flu season picks up steam.
In the week beginning Oct. 22, 291 patients across the Children’s system tested positive for RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus. That’s a nearly 55% increase from the week prior, which saw 188 cases, and a nearly 80% increase from the 163 cases seen in the week beginning Oct. 8. Cook Children’s in Fort Worth also reported a spike in cases over the last few weeks.
“We generally anticipate that from mid-October into the early part of the winter is when RSV peaks in our part of the country,” said Dr. Preeti Sharma, pediatric pulmonologist at Children’s Health and associate professor at UT Southwestern. “There was a pretty steep rise in the last week or so, so it remains to be seen what we’ll be seeing as far as hospital admissions.
as children adjusted to their first respiratory virus season without COVID-era protections. Children’s Health reported 316 RSV cases in the week ending Oct. 25, 2022.“In my office right now, we’ve just started seeing the beginnings of flu,” Sharma said. “Flu numbers have been pretty low, and that follows a more typical pattern because, generally speaking, we see flu increase in peak a little bit later in the winter.
The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council reported 411 hospitalizations with COVID-19 in North Texas hospitals on Monday. Steve Love, CEO and president of the council, said cases have seen a slight uptick over the last few days but that it’s not yet a definite upward trend.. Anyone 6 months or older is eligible for the flu jab, while anyone 6 months and older who hasn’t received a COVID vaccine in the last two months can get an updated Pfizer or Moderna booster.
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