Sick kids are crowding emergency rooms in parts of the country and some pediatric hospitals say they're running out of beds.
The United States is seeing a significant spike in respiratory illness among children.
"Rates are as high as 25% of those [who have] tested positive for RSV. That is quite unusual for October, we would typically start to see higher rates in November, December and January," said Dr. Ibukun Kalu, a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at Duke Children's Hospital in Durham, North Carolina.
"We've been strapped, and hospitals have sort of been functioning at the edge of how they can function. We're seeing more people requiring help and fewer beds available, largely due to staffing needs," explained Kalu."This combination is going to create more and more problems."
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