HOSPITAL OVERWHELMED - A recent influx of RSV cases has forced a Utah hospital to postpone certain surgeries and procedures as staff deal with the rising number of patients.
Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City has been at capacity or near capacity volume for several consecutive days, leading it to announce it is delaying a handful of prescheduled, non-emergency inpatient surgeries and outpatient procedures.
Haley Okoro experienced the impacts of RSV firsthand when her son was hospitalized. She noticed symptoms pulling and retracting on her son's neck and body — one of the first signs someone is working harder than normal to breathe. Okoro's sister, who is a nurse, told her to take the boy to doctor right away.
An epidemiologist with the Utah Department of Health and Human Services says most children will have had RSV by the time they are two, but any child under five is most susceptible to severE illness. "We're definitely seeing reports of high occupancy in our hospitals, so it seems there are a lot of children being hospitalized with respiratory disease," she explained.
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