Pediatric RSV Cases Stressing California Hospitals

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Children's hospitals throughout California are straining under an unusually high number of patients with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a common childhood respiratory infection that can in some cases cause pneumonia and other serious lung ailments. We’ll talk about what’s behind the surge in cases and how to keep young kids and other vulnerable populations safe, and we’ll assess the threat of an RSV, COVID and flu “tripledemic” in the state as winter approaches. Guests: Peter Chin-Hong, infectious disease specialist, UCSF Medical Center Erica Pan, California State Epidemiologist, California Department of Public Health John Zweifler, public health physician, Fresno County Department of Public Health Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.2	Some children's hospitals in California are struggling to find enough beds for babies and toddlers
1:10.0	who have the respiratory
1:11.0	illness RSV. Orange County declared a public health emergency weeks ago. And in Fresno County,
1:17.4	the strain has extended to adult hospitals already contending with a rise in COVID cases.
1:22.9	Meantime, California is now among 10 states with the worst flu levels in the nation, according to CDC data.
1:29.4	The state is facing the so-called triple-demic of flu, COVID, and RSV.
1:34.5	And this hour, we look at its impact on people's lives and our health care system.
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