Children's hospitals are reporting an early surge in respiratory viruses, largely respiratory syncytial virus or RSV, overwhelming their emergency rooms and filling pediatric beds near capacity across the country.
Doctors are seeing an alarming rise in RSV cases, a common respiratory illness, earlier than previous years and particularly among young infants experiencing severe breathing problems. An increase in RSV cases, coupled with an uptick in other respiratory diseases, such as rhinovirus, enterovirus, and adenovirus, have pushed children's hospitals plagued with staffing shortages to their limits in the past several weeks.
"We've seen more kids admitted to our hospital in the last eight weeks with non-COVID respiratory disease than we ever saw during the first two and a half years of COVID,” said Boney. "At any given day, for most of the day, we are at about 200% of our physical capacity in the Emergency Department," said Migita."Over half of the patients currently in the ED have symptoms attributable to a respiratory virus. RSV is on the rise, and last week 30% of respiratory viral tests in Seattle Children’s ED were positive for RSV. In the past, when we’ve reached 30-40% positivity, we are at peak, which typically lasts for 2 months.
Roughly three-fourths of all pediatric hospital beds are full nationwide, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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