Older Adults Are Being Hospitalized for RSV at 10 Times the Usual Rate
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that about six out of every 100,000 older Americans have been hospitalized this season with RSV. In the past—particularly before the pandemic—hospitalization rates for older adults from RSV were about 10 times lower around this time.
How worried about this should you be? And what does it mean as people gather together during the holidays? Infectious disease experts break it down.There are a few things to consider. One is that this isn’t a total shock to doctors. “RSV always hits seniors hard during RSV season,” says infectious disease expert Amesh Adalja, M.D., a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
Still, RSV season is coming on hard and fast, and its impact on adults is linked to what’s happening with kids, says Thomas Russo, M.D., professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo in New York. “There’s more virus circulating and exposure to young children that have RSV—they can transmit it to seniors,” Dr. Russo says.
While Dr. Schaffner says that the first time you get an RSV infection—which usually happens in childhood—is the worst, he points out that RSV is “yet another winter respiratory virus that can cause complications in your lungs and lead to pneumonia.”People who have RSV usually develop symptoms within four to six days after getting infected, per the
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