Across the country, there has been an alarming case surge in the respiratory illness known as RSV. In San Diego, at least 300 patients have tested positive in the last week and a half, according to Rady Children’s Hospital.
“The children who are most at risk for RSV are small babies, particularly those under six months of age, but kids under a year of age tend to get sick. And kids that have underlying lung and other chronic diseases can also get pretty sick from RSV,” said Alice Pong, MD, who is also the medical director for infection control at Rady Children’s Hospital.
Right now, more than half of the patients in the ICU at Rady Children’s are being treated for respiratory infections. Also, one-third of the patients tested for RSV are positive. It’s not clear why there’s been a surge in RSV cases, which typically surge in January and February. “We are also seeing a lot of different viruses all at the same time, they’re not all RSV. Kids that were wearing masks for a long time are taking them off, kids are congregating where they weren’t before. So all of these things are contributing to these different virus infection,” said Dr. Pong.
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