According to pediatricians what's different now is that older children are getting RSV and also testing positive for multiple viruses.
"We are seeing it not only in new babies, but we are seeing it in children who are now 1 year, 2 years some even 3 years of age," said Dr. David Cornfield, Chief of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford."The whole family is sick. It started with my daughter who got it from her preschool pod.
That was about two and a half weeks ago," said Smith. "She still coughs and you can definitely hear there is something pressing in there.""Given the isolation that we have all experienced due to COVID. Many children that are in their second year or third year of life have not yet seen RSV infection. So, those older children that are getting RSV for the first time are more severely affected as well," said Dr. Cornfield.
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