This is Pedicast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to PDACast, a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of

nationwide children's hospital. We're in Columbus, Ohio. It is September 24th, 2014,

episode 296. We're calling this one, introvirus D68, school lunch, and soda tax.

I want to welcome everyone to the program.

So I originally planned to call this episode,

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner,

and make it a clever all meals of the day episode of Pediacast.

You knew that wasn't going to work out.

And I still have all those stories lined up for you, and we'll get to the specifics in a moment.

But my clever plan was disrupted by a little virus called Interovirus D-68.

You may have heard about it.

I showed up here in the Midwest in Kansas City and Chicago first, and then it decided to pay us a little

visit here in Columbus. And let me tell you, we've been swamped with sick kids in pediatrician

offices, in our urgent cares, and in our emergency department. And yes, as you've heard in the

news, there have been sicker kids than we typically see

with respiratory viruses this time each year in the fall.

We're seeing lots more kids wheezing than usual, many who do not have a history of ever

weezing before.

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