Oakland County’s chief medical examiner said Wednesday that a 6-year-old in Macomb County has died amid a spike in infections among children in Michigan, which has children’s hospitals across the state and is nearly full. It said the boy died from respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV.
The boy was admitted to Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital and died at 3:41 a.m. Wednesday, the Oakland County Coroner’s Office told the Free Press.
“The child was diagnosed at the hospital, and I believe he survived for several hours in the hospital, but I think he had severe breathing difficulties,” said doctor Dr. Ljubisa Dragovic. “He was recorded positive at the hospital and tested positive, so he had RSV.”
The boy is among the hundreds of children in Michigan who need hospital care amid a spate of cases of respiratory syncytial virus, which causes the most serious illness in infants, young children, immunocompromised people and the elderly. are among us.
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Who is at risk from RSV?
It is a very common respiratory virus that causes mild cold-like symptoms in most people “typical of other respiratory illnesses, such as a runny nose, cough, sneezing and fever.” told the Free Press in a previous interview. “Most people who get RSV recover on their own at home.”
