Posted on 08/11/2021 3:09:54 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City pushed back against the media's hysterical narrative that their hospital had "hit capacity" due to child covid cases by pointing out that most of their child patients have respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), not covid, and they have "plenty of capacity" to see kids in outpatient settings.
"Children's Mercy hits capacity as COVID cases continue rising in KC Metro," blared a headline from the Kansas City Star on July 27.
"As you may have heard, we are currently experiencing high patient volumes in the hospital, but we continue to be able to meet the needs of our patients requiring hospitalization," Children's Mercy responded in a statement posted to Facebook on July 28. "We also want to emphasize we have plenty of capacity to see your child in all of our outpatient settings."
"While we continue to see COVID-19 cases increase in our community and in our hospital, the increase in children we are treating as in-patients is mainly due to respiratory illnesses, like RSV," Children's Mercy continued. "We encourage all families to keep their scheduled clinic appointments."
Children's Mercy, which has 367-beds, said Thursday that they had 19 hospitalized child covid patients in total.
There has been a significant surge of RSV cases among children throughout our country since July.
"So we're all clear: when you read those worrying stories about a respiratory virus filling children's hospitals, you are reading about RSV," Alex Berenson said Saturday on Twitter. "And the likely reason this is happening now is because lockdowns prevented normal exposure, so 18 months of cases are happening at once."
So we’re all clear: when you read those worrying stories about a respiratory virus filling children’s hospitals, you are reading about RSV. And the likely reason this is happening now is because lockdowns prevented normal exposure, so 18 months of cases are happening at once: pic.twitter.com/c1acIYeGCT— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 7, 2021
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital said they have treated more cases of Respiratory Syncytial Disease, or RSV, in July than the first six months of 2021 combined.We have still yet to see the full extent of the damage caused by our government's disastrous lockdown policies.
There have been a total of 303 RSV cases at the Knoxville hospital in the month of July, two more cases than reported in the first six months of 2021 combined.
RSV is a contagious virus in children and can cause respiratory infections that can lead to more serious illnesses such as pneumonia. In June, the Centers for Disease Control issued a health advisory after seeing an increase in RSV cases across the southern United States.
"Due to reduced circulation of RSV during the winter months of 2020–2021, older infants and toddlers might now be at increased risk of severe RSV-associated illness since they have likely not had typical levels of exposure to RSV during the past 15 months," a release from the CDC said.
Can’t make it up pic.twitter.com/SkxDwiBrlS— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 9, 2021
They are in bed with BIG PHARMA and are only too willing to push the Pro-Vaccine Propaganda of the Democrats and BIG PHARMA.
Next time you want to post, and then vehemently stand behind a sob story about a Hospital being overcrowded, you might want to remember this story.
Someone said: “There must be bodies everywhere!”
MSM loses credibility on a daily basis. Well, they can’t lose anymore than they have. They are in the basement now as bald face liars.
MSM “The sky is blue today”.
Me, running to the window to see if it is yellow or brown.
I was Children’s Mercy just the other day.
There were NOT bodies everywhere.
Lockdowns caused spike in RSV cases because kids weren’t infecting and recovering.
It stalled the outbreak and now it’s happening.
I heard that ch ildren were also on ventilators! Discusting Liberal BS —a damn shame
does covid cause journalistic malpractice
MORE lying by the MSM.
What a surprise.
People here and other conservative sites pointed out how hiding for 18 months would have impacts on your immune system and the lack of exposure to normal germs and viruses would cause people to get sick for things they would normally beat with their immune system appear to have been proven right.
Forcing children to mask up—is causing all the problems. We know they are not vulnerable to the virus. PaRENTS —wake up to all the lies—they are fear mongers—doing their job to scare the daylights out of you.
I’m in MO and beds are opening up, both regular and ICU. They were at 15/16% a week ago but are 18/21% now.
As many have said, this delta thing is going to come and go fast.
The MSM are liars and have their own false narrative on everything. I wouldn’t believe their tide time tables.
The Law of Unintended Consequences has not been repealed and strikes again.
According to a spokesman for Children’s Mercy Hospital, the stress they are experiencing in their capacity is due to RSV, not Covid. And vey importantly, they say this is due to the lockdowns preventing normal exposure to RSV that children would ordinarily experience, so they’re seeing 18 month’s worth of RSV all at once.
Gee, perhaps they should try to flatten the curve?!
BTW, this is confirmed by my daughter’s experience as a PICU nurse in a local world famous hospital.
More likely it came over the border. Who knows what those people are carrying.
Sounds like some pretty damned good science, lock down and get sick or don’t lock down and maybe get sick.
The invaders are bringing all kinds of diseases that had been eliminated years ago. And at the same time, the “Infrastructure bill” is going to expand obamacare.
Fork over American citizens and reward illegals.
Per Obama: Reward your friends and punish your enemies.
I knew these stories were frauds...
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