Kodiak01 t1_it7irxv wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:30 PM

If it's requiring hospitalization, there are likely comorbidities in play given how prevalent RSV actually is.

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv

>Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infects the lungs and breathing passages, and, in the United States, nearly all children have been infected with RSV by age two. In healthy people, symptoms of RSV infection are usually mild and resolve within a week. However, RSV can cause serious illness or death in vulnerable individuals, including premature and very young infants, children with chronic lung disease or congenital heart disease, and people who are over age 65.

Wouldn't be surprised if many of those being hospitalized also had covid at some point.

Luxurydeals365 t1_it81nju wrote on October 21, 2022 at 4:36 PM

My baby was 4 months old, breastfed, born full term, no other health issues and was hospitalized for 2 days for RSV in July. Luckily he’s made a full recovery but I was blindsided.

tilario t1_it9hoan wrote on October 21, 2022 at 10:33 PM

mine was a month old and spent 12 days in the hospital. sucked. hard.

hard-time-on-planet t1_it9b38d wrote on October 21, 2022 at 9:44 PM

Your comment about them having covid at some point reminds me of something I heard on wnpr

https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2022-10-20/connecticut-childrens-says-rsv-has-become-the-dominant-virus-far-more-than-covid-and-is-surging

> “There’s some evidence that the virus SARS-CoV-2, even in asymptomatic, mild cases, may suppress the B cell, which is responsible for antibody production,” he said. “We know that about 85% of the kids have had COVID at some point, could have had a mild decrease in their B cells and perhaps that set him up for more severe RSV, severe rhinovirus, severe adenovirus, and potentially severe influenza.

Or here is a different way the pandemic could have had an effect

> At Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, Dr. Thomas Murray, associate medical director for Infection Prevention, said the pandemic mask-wearing, hand hygiene, and social distancing kept respiratory infections low. As families have been relaxing those COVID-19 generated precautions, it’s exposing a population of children who previously had minimal exposure to respiratory viruses of all kinds.

> “Virtually every child by the age of two would have had RSV,” he said. “And now we have children who are probably close to 3 years old who may never have had RSV. So the total number of kids that are getting RSV for the first time is likely to be much higher.”