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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

There is definitely a surge in RSV as Covid cases are also rapidly increasing, but what the PP stated up thread was definitely misleading, and appeared to be deliberate:

So is the contention that the [b]pediatric increase in hospital use unrelated to the spike in general COVID cases?
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[b]That is correct[/b]. It is in large part driven by RSV, which is on the rise because children's immune systems were not exposed to the virus for over 18 months, causing a surge in cases now that immune systems are not trained to fight it off.[/quote]

Is this really true in the states where there were no closures last year, though? It makes sense for the Northeast, but not so much in the southern states getting slammed by Delta. They never shutdown and they didn’t wear masks. [/quote]

The PP who said "That is correct" is patently wrong.  Here is a good article discussing the interplay of RSV and Covid right now, particularly in certain states.  But to say pediatric hospitalizations are unrelated to spike in Covid cases is wrong.  https://www.npr.org/2021/08/14/1027663917/rsv-covid-children[/quote]

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