It’s all over the place. Testing has slowed way down.
It’s also, basically, a bad cold.
The odd thing, though, is that a bunch of kids ended up in ICU. THAT seems unusual to me, but I am not a pediatrician.
For young kids and especially those with asthma, Enterovirus D68 can put one in the ICU quickly. Severe symptoms can develop very fast. My daughter has asthma, so when she got a cold yesterday, we monitored very closely, but, so far, it looks like “just a cold”, thank God.
No it’s a lot worse than a bad cold, especially if the child has any history of asthma or reactive airway disease. Over the last week and a half we’ve had to transfer 4 kids to pediatric ICUs due to persistent bronchospasm that this nasty little bug causes.