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poojokesarefunny t1_it72bz1 wrote

Can't call it COVID anymore, but we all know that's what's happening

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grapeaperapegape t1_it76t71 wrote

How many of these children were given the experimental Covid injections?

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BeadyEyedThieves t1_it77xoi wrote

Replying to marche_au_supplice (#164,485)

RSV, and the weekly admission across 3 hospitals went from 54 to slightly over 100, when the 3 children's hospitals have 84 beds between them. So, that's definitely a CRISIS ERMAGERDDDD.

I guess people don't realize that hospitals are financially incentivized to run as close to capacity as possible. So it's pretty inevitable that a positive influx in any type of disease is going to result in being "over capacity". Also people have a much higher propensity to bring their child to the hospital when they're sick with something because it's scary and it's their child. Better to be told to go home than to need to be at the hospital when you're up against the clock.

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Pertinax126 t1_it7aogu wrote

Replying to BeadyEyedThieves (#164,851)

> settled science

Gah! I hate that term. It flies in the face of what science is. No science should be settled since science is about expanding and improving what we know. No theory, no hypothesis, no idea should be so sacrosanct that we should be re-testing or re-validating. No aspect of science should be settled.

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BeadyEyedThieves t1_it7bc6y wrote

Replying to Pertinax126 (#164,922)

My comment was sarcastic LOL. And yes, only troglodytes use this phrase. They believe in scientism (start with a preconceived hypothesis, gather data that supports the hypothesis, dismiss data that goes against the hypothesis and label anyone who points it out as a conspiracy theorist, get some bullshit peer reviewed paper published, then shout "trust the experts").

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yeahgoodok2020 t1_it7gw5q wrote

Replying to poojokesarefunny (#164,168)

My infant daughter just had Covid followed by RSV back to back.

Definitely nervous about the long term consequences of Covid, but her reaction to RSV was a lot more severe in the moment (and personally terrifying).

Both viruses are rapidly on the rise with kids back in school, and I'm nervous how bad this Flu season is going to be.

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mikeokay t1_it7ikf8 wrote

Happened to my 17 month old son last week and it was terrifying. He was on constant albuterol through an oxygen mask for about 24 hours after being rushed via ambulance from the pediatrician to the childrens ED. He was released the next evening and is doing really well now. He did not have Covid, not even RSV or anything else like that. It was just the damn Rhinovirus.

Scary couple of days for sure.

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Kodiak01 t1_it7irxv wrote

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.

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Smokeshow-Joe t1_it7kk5i wrote

This hit my boys …but they are older and we caught it early so we managed to stay out of the hospital. When my little guy was still little though….we got to take a helicopter ride to the icu when we didn’t recognize the severity right away. If they can’t clear the wheezing …don’t wait .

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CompasslessPigeon t1_it7me19 wrote

Replying to mikeokay (#165,645)

My friends 7 week old nearly died 3 weeks ago from rhinovirus. His O2 when they got to childrens was 82%. He was on something like 22 liters per minute of oxygen by high flow nasal cannula to keep his oxygen level up. Spent a week in the hospital half in the PICU. His spit was basically carbonated they pumped him so full of oxygen. Super scary, and both parents are healthcare workers, so it was recognized quickly that he was sick.

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Luxurydeals365 t1_it81nju wrote

Replying to Kodiak01 (#165,666)

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.

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red_purple_red t1_it81ys1 wrote

Just build more hospitals. Its better to have excess capacity than to run out of beds.

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DistrictBaguette t1_it8a8hp wrote

Weird for profit healthcare system has record profits. Why don’t these children care about the stock prices of these companies?

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ProInvestCK t1_it8ki5y wrote

Maybe this is why I’ve been coughing for a month straight

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hard-time-on-planet t1_it9b38d wrote

Replying to Kodiak01 (#165,666)

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.”

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tangosis t1_it9u4ck wrote

Replying to DistrictBaguette (#168,233)

There are no "for profit" hospitals in CT. UConn John Dempsey is state run. All other major hospitals are not-for-profit. These facilities are doing they best they can with the resources available. Many of them don't have the staff or capacity to combat these sudden surges.

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tangosis t1_it9upra wrote

Replying to yeahgoodok2020 (#165,486)

My son was 5 months old when he got COVID, and luckily, it wasn't that bad. 3 months later, he contracta RSV and we spend 3 nights at Yale New Haven while he's hooked up to IV and high flow oxygen. It was absolutely frightening. Luckily, we just got his flu booster in time for the season, but I'm hoping to keep it at 2/3 for the year.

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iStealyournewspapers t1_it9z7lp wrote

Replying to Mike-El (#172,056)

Fauci just said that being vaccinated makes you safe, and not being vaccinated puts you at risk. I can be safe in my house and a meteor could still crash through my ceiling and kill me, but it’s super unlikely, so I’m basically safe.

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