Friend of mine is a pediatric resident at St. Chris’s, and shit was already bad more than a month ago — her exact quote back on November 2(!) was, “The hospital is bursting at the seams.” PICU/NICU were jammed even then, and they had to intubate some babies.

Apparently RSV cases were double the December 2019 peak at that point, and it sure as hell hasn’t gotten any better in the meantime.