Posted on 04/18/2020 1:24:14 PM PDT by epluribus_2
Respiratory syncytial virus is similar to cold or flu, but patients have trouble breathing and it can cause other severe infections. The sniffles, coughing and sneezing echoing throughout classrooms and offices make it clear the cold and flu season is in full swing. Doctors have noticed one illness in particular, respiratory syncytial virus, has been spreading faster and causing more hospitalizations for children than usual.
“In the 35 years I’ve been doing this, I don’t know that I have ever seen RSV come on so strong so early in the season,” Dr. Dan McGee, a pediatric hospitalist at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, told TODAY. “Not to make people panic, but this year seems to be particularly bad.”
RSV respiratory virus could be dangerous to young children, doctors warn JAN. 8, 202002:03 Reports from across the country reinforce what McGee has witnessed. Hospitals in New York, Kentucky, North Dakota, Louisiana and Ohio are all reporting more cases than usual.
Hospitals across the Chicago area are also reporting a spike in cases, NBC 5 Chicago reported. So many people are getting sick that emergency rooms are full and it takes hours just to be seen.
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We have an easy bedside test for RSV.
interesting
In “normal years” there is an ebb and flow of low grade viral illness. Paramyxovirus, Rhinovirus, adenovirus. It’s like a “pick up” basket ball court. They are all jockeying for “customers”. It’s what the CDC’s monthly “Morbidity and Mortality Report” is all about. They monitor all this stuff. Especially the “Influenza Like Illness”.
In a year with an epidemic they other players can’t compete on the court, which is why all the other viral infections “disappear”. This is an epidemic year. Likely they were looking for and expecting RSV or Adenovirus and they WERE seeing “something new” they just didn’t recognize it for what it was because it hadn’t “been here” long enough for anyone to die from it.
Once they had a couple deaths they alerted. Closed planes from China, etc.
RSV in a neonatal nursery is a savage killer.
So many respiratory diseases so little time.
Lets just call it all Coronavirus, okay?
But the Minute Clinic doc then my actual physician did not order up such a test. Normally, this level of visit would not warrant it. So we could have gone several months with “bad bronchitis”, etc. until the medium, non- life-threatening viral illnesses would have clearly missed it. But I could tell not like any other flu/bronch.
I used to have athsma until 15 years ago or so until allergy treatments. It came back, I have inhalers and lung meds now. Phase change and surprised doctors make me think I got a preview deal on SARS-COV-2 myself, no extra charge. Question is - do I have antibodies? Wish I could buy a test at Walgreens.]
Coronavirus has been around, does not mean that everyone had it but I think many who thought they had influenza B, were tested negative but the docs told them they have it anyway, probably had corona
well, on our covid floor we’ve gotten many who were negative for covid, but positive for seasonal flu, rhinovirus, and human metapneumvirus...all things we isolate for....
A lot of people were sick Jan and Feb. I was sick Feb, and I almost never get the flu.
If things started in Wuhan in December or so, then that points to a deliberate and active effort to spread the virus globally, via Chinese travelers.
Really? So I’m guessing you are in a place not NYC where the virus isn’t doubling? So maybe you are in an area where you can meet the “Gating Thresholds” and quickly move into Phase 2 or 3? That would be a good thing.
We got something from the grandchildren at Thanksgiving, you always do. It wasn’t bad, my daughter got over it in 3 days, it took me three weeks to get rid of the cough. It was probably an Adenovirus. Didn’t worry me a bit.
They say Influenza “B” IIRC was peaking at that time. But nothing was in epidemic proportions such that it “pushed all the other players” off the court. Clearly, I guess you could check the MMWR and see, they probably list this stuff. It. May be the “usual” viral thing is going on in all the “flyover” states.
Lots of people here think it was circulating in the US in November.
If so, it didn't start in Wuhan in December and we don't know where it started.
I used to have athsma until 15 years ago or so until allergy treatments. It came back, I have inhalers and lung meds now. Phase change and surprised doctors make me think I got a preview deal on SARS-COV-2 myself, no extra charge. Question is - do I have antibodies? Wish I could buy a test at Walgreens.]
it’s worse than that.
If you have antibody, is it protective?
If so how long? A month, a year, lifelong?
WE don’t know. And we won’t know for awhile.
My wife, adult daughter and I came down with RSV in February. Took a month to fully recover. Not fun.
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