the images. laila, thank you for the update. yeah. parents, listen up, pediatric hospitals across the country are running out of beds for children. this is largely because rsv cases have surged across the country coupled with the flu. the rsv virus is severely impacting the number of ventilators and hospital beds including at children s minnesota hospital where administrators say they re almost out of icu beds. i want to bring in the president of the minnesota children s hospital. doctor, thank you for being with us. we really wanted you on, my friend, my good friend from minnesota with two little boys just told me they experienced this last week. how bad is it? yeah. how bad is it? we are seeing the biggest surge in respiratory illness, wintertime respiratory illness that we ve ever seen going back. a number of patients, patients admitted to the hospital for rsv
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video, they re having respiratory distress. the kinds things you saw, the baby, the belly moving out when they breathed, head bobbing, pulling of muscles, that s a sign they might need to seek medical care. the first step would be the pediatrician s office, or emergent care to see whether or not they need to go into the hospital. our hospitals, we are operating at capacity, but we do, are able to accommodate those babies. sometimes, they have to wait a while. sometimes, we re treating patients in the emergency room for a longer period of time. we have to open up alternate areas in the hospital on weekends and nights that might not be used to accommodate the babies, but those are the symptoms. a lot of those symptoms, those are pretty common symptoms for children. i have two nephews preschool
age, they re often getting sick. runny nose, the fever, the coughing, the loss of appetite. how do parents know when to distinguish when it is time to go to the hospital? because they don t want to go prematurely given they re so at capacity? right. again, you re right, those symptoms, runny nose, cough, fever, very common. the baby that you saw in that video really labored breathing, not very common. and it s particularly at younger at risk. less than 6 months, considered to be at the highest risk. certainly, a parent with the younger infant having that kind of difficulty should be seeking medical care. i just want to ask you one quick question, last week, the big association that oversees you, the children s hospital and american academy of pediatrics went to the biden administration and said we need emergency aid because this in some children is equivalent to what this was precovid vaccine for adults. is that true, do you need emergency funding from the biden
was in october double the previous number. then the question is, if this is my child, what do i do? and we have some video. i think you ve seen it, i want to display it for our viewers. sure. to see that babies have been going through, that quick breathing from the abdomen like that, that s concerning. right. we ll show you the other one. if you could just speak to what parents see as the head bobbing, right? what do parents that witnessed do if there literally are no icu beds for their kids? so, a couple of things to keep in mind, rsv is a very common virus. p most people will get it at some point in their childhood. in some cases it s the cold. there s no treatment for rsv. there s nothing that makes it go away faster, the treatments are aimed with dealing with the symptoms. the main reason that children would need to come into the hospital, if the symptoms are severe enough as you saw in the