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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.today.com/health/4-year-old-struggling-breathe-wait-16-hours-er-rsv-surge-rcna55713

There's the article. Hit home for me because we once had a four-year-old in these same straits pre-covid. At the time it was just bad flu and rsv together that our little one had, (October, before flu shots were available that year), but I will never forget watching that o2 reading all night long and the alarms going off when it dropped below 90. Doing nebulizer treatments at 3am. Patting her back to loosen mucous, the shadows under her eyes. The coughing so hard that she vomited... Being moved from picu to regular and then back again.

What's chilling about this article:

The kid in question has had COVID three times in the last six months. And she's four.

Turns out she had COVID again.

In her sixteen hours in the ER, the mother and all the other mothers with similarly sick kids stuck together and bonded. Great, right? Except I think we can assume that the kids who were sick with *only* another virus, now have a covid exposure on top of that.

I don't know how anyone with a young child can read something like that and not think masks are the bare freaking minimum of what we should do right now. And that doesn't even touch the long-term stuff.

I wish you all good luck. [/quote]

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