Hospitals are seeing a rise in cases of RSV, a common cold virus that can be associated with severe disease in young children and older adults.
An early increase in seasonal flu activity has been reported in most of the United States, with the nation's Southeast and south-central areas reporting the highest levels of flu, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Connecticut Children's Hospital in Hartford is over capacity due to children admitted for RSV, WTNH reports. People are also reading… Buchanan said Hospital leaders have met with the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the National Guard to begin logistic review of putting a mobile field hospital in the front lawn and more work is planned Thursday to determine a final decision and get approval.
Surveillance data collected by the CDC clearly shows a rise in RSV cases nationwide in recent weeks, with cases detected by PCR tests more than tripling over the past two months and nearing last year's peaks. The CDC's surveillance program captures data from 75 counties representing about 9% of the total US population."We used to have kind of a seasonality to different viruses," Dr.
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