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FORT WORTH — Between Oct. 29 and Nov. 4, 240 patients admitted at Cook Children’s Medical Center tested positive for RSV. That’s a 29% positivity rate out of the 834
Children’s hospitals across North Texas are struggling to keep up with an influx in patients as more children are being admitted for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
In the last 24 hours, 624 kids were seen in the emergency room at Cook Children's, and many of those were with respiratory infections like RSV and the flu.