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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point that PP's were making wasn't about covid being mistaken for RSV for vice versa.  It's that RSV is happening at the same time as covid pediatric hospitalizations so RSV is taking up some pediatric beds, so there are fewer that could go to covid patients, so that narrative that the "pediatric beds are full!" is partially driven by RSV
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Exactly.  It’s not that people think the covid is rsv or vice versa, it’s that it’s both.  So, news stories that read “covid on the rise, pediatric icu full” aren’t giving the whole story.[/quote]

Distinction without a difference. But for the explosion in Covid hospitalizations, there may have been a bed for your child when they got RSV or appendicitis. Due to something entirely preventable, your kid may die of something they could have easily survived with proper care. This is what people have been talking about when they refer to hospital systems getting overwhelmed. It means that Covid is sucking up so many resources there’s nothing left for everything else, including RSV. And with RSV, what’s different here is the timing. I’ve heard “anectdata” that kids are contracting both. There’s nothing to say you can only get one bug at a time. [/quote]

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