Children's hospitals in the Tri-State area and parts of the U.S. are seeing a surge in a common respiratory illness that can cause severe breathing problems for babies.
On Tuesday, at least 80% of pediatric beds were filled in 14 states across the country. Babies have more trouble than adults with upper respiratory illness.
"Really small babies have a harder time in clearing their own congestion, they can't sneeze, they can't cough as hard, they don't have the chest muscles to really expel all that so this why kids are at increased risk when it comes to RSV, influenza at getting hospitalized," Stanford Children's Health.
In New York, it is the flu that hospitals are seeing in larger than normal numbers, and experts say the children who get the sickest from the flu, just like with COVID, are the children who are not vaccinated for it.