Empty shelves, crowded waiting rooms and hospital beds fill — influenza, COVID When RSV It continues to stress the healthcare system and the patients who need it.
Alyssa Rogers, whose son is hospitalized with RSV, said, “It’s really heartbreaking to see him hooked up to IVs, cords, monitors and oxygen.” Fighting to eat, which means, poor poor boy, that he cried so much that he lost his voice and could not even actually cry.”
in Chicago, hospital Pharmacist Sterling Elliott worries about young patients who need Tamiflu, amoxicillin, or liquid versions of over-the-counter fever reducers like Tylenol and Motrin.
“These are weight-based doses for children, so a liquid formulation is the best way to give patients a true weight-based dose,” Elliott said. I’m calling the wholesaler from the wholesaler to see if I can get it.”
Las Vegas pharmacist Sally Chia says her wholesaler told her it would take a month to restock her with the antiviral Tamiflu.
In Indiana and Arizona, providers are appealing to the public to avoid emergency rooms when possible.
“Literally they have patients, hospital Chia said: “Hospital operations, emergency departments and inpatient bed availability have been definitely impacted, and the frequency is increasing.”
up to date Health and welfare services Data show that about 77% of US hospital beds are full.
CDC’s latest flu report About 26,000 people were hospitalized with the flu in the week following Thanksgiving, with more cases expected after the December holidays.
The CDC believes RSV cases peaked in the South and Southeast and leveled off in the Mid-Atlantic, New England, and Midwest. The RSV season usually ends around February.
Hospitalizations continue to rise when it comes to COVID cases. In California, hospitalizations due to COVID have increased 150% in his month.
Community transmission of the current virus has increased since Halloween and is now high in most of the country, according to the CDC.
Many health experts are sending out the latest information COVID-19 and influenza vaccination, some recommend masks. But not everyone is jumping ship. Some say they’ve gotten used to not wearing them, some don’t wear them anymore, and some feel safer wearing them when the virus is spreading more rapidly.
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