{"id":148845,"date":"2022-10-25T06:25:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/whats-behind-worrying-rsv-surge-in-us-childrens-hospitals"},"modified":"2022-10-25T06:25:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:25:13","slug":"whats-behind-worrying-rsv-surge-in-us-childrens-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/whats-behind-worrying-rsv-surge-in-us-childrens-hospitals","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s behind worrying RSV surge in US children\u2019s hospitals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whats-behind-worrying-rsv-surge-in-us-childrens-hospitals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s hospitals in parts of the U.S. are seeing a surge in a common respiratory illness that can cause severe breathing problems for babies.<\/p>\n<p>RSV cases fell dramatically two years ago as the pandemic shut down schools, day cares and businesses. With restrictions easing in the summer of 2021, doctors saw <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-weather-health-39121817e8472d182d15ed5facf0e076\">an alarming increase<\/a> in what is normally a fall and winter virus.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s back again. And doctors are bracing for the possibility that RSV, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/flu-shot-timing-recommendation-b7b5f65bc52a8f98b902750bed928fea\">flu<\/a> and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-science-health-pandemics-flu-c92b8653683afbac3d81eebff8f5d29d\">COVID-19<\/a> could combine to stress hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s hospitals in parts of the U.S. are seeing a surge in a common respiratory illness that can cause severe breathing problems for babies. RSV cases fell dramatically two years ago as the pandemic shut down schools, day cares and businesses. With restrictions easing in the summer of 2021, doctors saw an alarming increase in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}