The illness straining pediatric hospitals
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Today on “Post Reports,” why RSV — respiratory syncytial virus — is overwhelming children’s hospitals, and what parents can do to keep their children safe.
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Children’s hospitals are under strain as they care for unusually high numbers of kids infected with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. RSV, a common cause of cold-like symptoms, started surging in late summer, months before its typical season. This surge in RSV comes as the flu is sending a record number of people to the hospital this early in the season, along with continued covid-19 cases. Health reporter Fenit Nirappil on how RSV is affecting children across the country, and what parents should look out for as we move into winter virus season.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Martine. |
| 0:03.2 | A quick message before we start today's show. |
| 0:05.5 | You may have noticed I am handing over the hosting reigns for a few weeks while I'm off |
| 0:10.2 | on our reporting trip, working on a story that I'm so excited to share with you all. |
| 0:15.1 | Until I'm back at the end of this month, you'll be hearing from my official new co-host |
| 0:19.0 | Allahe Azadi, as well as a whole crew of other guest hosts from around the newsroom, bringing |
| 0:24.3 | you the most interesting and insightful stories of the day. |
| 0:28.0 | Today, we've got my colleague and friend, Rachel Curzius. |
| 0:31.6 | You are in great hands. |
| 0:33.4 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:35.5 | Meet Shira Pindike. |
| 0:37.3 | She's an academic in Philadelphia and mom to live, who's a little over a year and a half. |
| 0:42.6 | Love has got a lot of opinions and sass. |
| 0:46.9 | She loves our dog Vashdi. |
| 0:49.5 | Vashdi loves her too, even though sometimes she does some things to annoy Vashdi, like |
| 0:54.0 | pulling on her tail. |
| 0:55.9 | He's like a pretty happy, easygoing kid. |
| 1:01.4 | Back in July of this year, love got sick with what at first seemed like a cold. |
| 1:06.9 | But at daycare, she started sort of acting extremely lethargic and she wasn't interested |
| 1:12.1 | in eating, which is very abnormal for her, and so they sent her home. |
| 1:17.6 | And I just really noticed that she was breathing really rapidly. |
| 1:21.3 | She ran her partner called their pediatrician, who said, you know what, bring love in. |
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