PUBLIC HEALTH: RSV versus COVID?

[Emergency Request]

By Staff Reporters

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Children’s hospitals are asking the federal government to declare a public health emergency to help them deal with the surge of RSV cases. Infants are being hospitalized at seven times the rate of 2018.

DEFINITION: Respiratory syncytial virus, also called human respiratory syncytial virus and human orthopneumovirus, is a common, contagious airborne virus that causes infections of the respiratory tract. It is a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus.

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