Anonymous wrote:Wow you guys are a dramatic bunch! The hospitals are full!!! All of them!!!!!

Actually it sounds like an experienced bunch. It can never happen to you though, right?

Anonymous wrote:Wow you guys are a dramatic bunch! The hospitals are full!!! All of them!!!!!

They are. I hope your kids don't need to use them.

Wow you guys are a dramatic bunch! The hospitals are full!!! All of them!!!!!

You have a toddler. Most kids aren't hospitalized from RSV, but if your kid ends up having a bad case, they may not be able to get the hospital treatment they need because pediatric hospitals are currently overwhelmed. I would not go.

Do a home vacation!

Have a few wonderfully slow mornings where there is nowhere to be - stay in pjs until 10am, etc. If weather is nice, go to the zoo, or a really fun outdoor playground you don't normally get to, go apple or pumpkin picking....


I'd stay home, though. No 7 hour trips when you are going into a house of sick and under-slept adults who have been battling RSV (and sleepless nights) for two weeks.... and you certainly don't want your 2 year old to get it and be sick, and miss more days of childcare, plus be sick, before Thanksgiving and the rest of the holidays. No thank you!

now, if the 1 year old nephew is healthy by Thursday at 8am when you are set to leave you could go, but honestly, why chance it? And who needs 4 houseguests when you have 2 just barely healthy kids in the house? ugh.

Amy Schumer's three year old was just hospitalized with it. Hospitals are literally full and overflowing with kids with RSV right now.

My son had rsv at 5 weeks old, his sister brought it home from a birthday party - he was hospitalized for a week in the breathing ward a childrens and it led to asthma which caused another hospitalization at 4 and at 17 he still has to carry around rescue meds for asthma. I would want to push out when your child gets it as long as possible.

I would cancel.

Anonymous wrote:No. We never stopped life for RSV before and should not now. And sounds like those kids won’t be infectious anyway.

This simply isn't true. Preemies long have been given monthly shots to prevent RSV (my 20 year old got them), and preemies born in RSV season are kept away from people because of RSV. and the only reason more kids don't get it is because it is outrageously expensive. People just never really focused on these illnesses before COVID, but that doesn't mean it exist or didn't change anyone's behavior or lives.

Each year in the United States, RSV leads to approximately:

2.1 million outpatient (non-hospitalization) visits among children younger than 5 years old.(1)
58,000-80,000 hospitalizations among children younger than 5 years old.(2,3)
60,000-120,000 hospitalizations among adults 65 years and older.(4,5)
6,000-10,000 deaths among adults 65 years and older.(6,7)
100–300 deaths in children younger than 5 years old.(7)