Officials say they’re scrambling to respond to an uncharacteristic surge in RSV, a common respiratory illness that’s filling up pediatric hospital beds nationwide:
, most of us get it by the age of 2. The symptoms look like a cold and most people recover unscathed in a week or two. But it can be serious for infants, adults over 65 and others with weakened immune systems. While elderly adults are the most at risk of dying from RSV, it’s also the leading cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia for those under the age of 1, according to the CDC.
, as most but not all COVID precautions were dropped. As children return to schools and daycares this fall after two years of mostly masked or remote schooling, health experts say a lot of them — especially the youngest cohort — are getting exposed to the virus for the first time. According to the CDC, the RSV rate in Massachusetts has more than quadrupled since early September.
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