Since my kid was a newborn, I've been in a group chat with other parents.

It's eight mothers, all of whom have two-year-olds.

We talk about our kids, their tantrums, their development, the kind of mundane stuff that other adults probably don't want to hear about.

Yeah, it's, it's, um, what do I feed my child for lunch, Halloween costumes,

the interspersed with my kids sick. Um, my kids had a runny nose for six months. My kid has had a thousand-year infections. And everyone at my

kid's school is sick. Half the class is out. That's basically our conversation.

That's my friend, Best Levin. She's part of the group chat. I'm a writer at Vanity Fair. I'm a mother,

and I have a sick child like every other parent in America right now. Tell me what happened with your daughter. So she, this was a few

weeks ago, she was kind of like a little bit snotty one day. It was like a Sunday.

And she had a low grade fever, but, you know, nothing crazy.

It was probably like, you know, 100.0, which is like not considered like anything for

toddlers.

And then it was kind of the same thing on Monday.

But, I mean, really just thought it was a cold.

And then that night, I picked her up and she was so hot.

She was like burning up and her fever, she had a fever of 104.5.

Yeah.

So that was very scary.

We ended up going to the pediatric ER. And they said, this is probably RSV. Everybody we're seeing has RSV.

That's respiratory syncytial virus. And they did a swab that tested for everything, you know, COVID, RSV, et cetera. And it confirmed that it was RSV. And they said, you know,

just give her motoring, give her Tylenol, you know, just keep her comfortable. And then they said, follow up your

pediatrician. So we went to the pediatrician the next day. And they said, right, it's RSV and also

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