omicron is clearly the driver of the increase in patients coming because with delta you see pneumonia, you see this lower respiratory tract infection, it causes low oxygen levels, brings you to the hospital because you re very sick, gets you admitted if you re very sick and potentially die. omicron is an upper respiratory infection and while that can lead to illness and death in some people with a lot of comorbidities or those who are just simply unlucky, for the vast majority of people this seems to be equivalent to a very bad cold or a very mild flu. we have to hope that that stays that way throughout the country and i don t want to minimize it in any way, shape or form by saying that people are people are going to die from this, but it sure is it sure is good to see that it doesn t have the deadly bs that delta and the prior variants have had so far. meantime, let s talk about the pediatric hospitalizations that this nation is seeing, and right now across the board it s the hi
During telehealth visits for acute respiratory infection, third-party acute-care doctors prescribed antibiotics more than twice as often as system-employed doctors, researchers report.
Babies of moms vaccinated against RSV while pregnant received fewer antimicrobial prescriptions during their first 3 months of life, a multinational study reports.