we d like to do things a little differently, they tell you. we d like to make a change to some customer belief that people have been attached to for the last two thousand years, but don t be alarmed, not a big deal. you don t even need to participate. all we ask is that you let us live the way we want to live. that s always the pitch. and, of course, you always agree to it. why wouldn t you, who could say no. some guy down the street wants to wear a dress? okay, fine. have a party. it doesn t affect you. you don t have to wear a dress so go ahead. live and let live. but it turns out that s never actually the deal. the guy down the street wears his dress but after a while that s not enough for him. he s still angry. and for some reason, he s angry with you. and that doesn t make sense because you re the person who had no problem with him wearing a dress in the first place. what did you do wrong? well, the problem is, you re not wearing a dress, and neither are your kids. your
or strep or rsv or any number of viruses. covid is still out there even though the rates around the country are pointing to influenza and rsv viruses. i read something scary from the president of the children s hospital association. intensive care units are at or above capacity in every children s hospital in the united states right now. what should parents know? two things. rsv can catch up on you. very common for children who have rsv. presents like a common cold and, in fact, most people it is, but in little children especially those under 2 can attack the small air waves. if children are using other muscles like stomach or neck to breathe, a reason to call your pediatrician first if uncomfortable. get to an emergency room especially a children s
up to hhs even though there is a ton of pressure, a ton of heat on officials here coming from the american academy of pediatrics and also the children s hospital association. those groups want the white house to declare a public health emergency. that declaration, that comes from hhs so the hhs secretary would determine the public health emergency, that is the case still here with the issues that you just laid out. and there are issues unique to these noncovid respiratory illnesses. most at risk is the child under the age of six months, the infants who for the reasons i said that they have very small airways and what you want to look for is a change in behavior, they are not as responsive, maybe fingertips are turning blue, some trouble breathing, that s when you take them to the emergency room for what i suspect is rsv.
influenza are overwhelming children s hospitals across the country, and children s health organizations are pushing the biden administration to declare a public if health emergency. lauren green has more on this story. reporter: experts are saying this surge in rsv could be one of the unforeseen consequences of the covid shutdown, and they urge the government to have a similar response. pediatric hospitals are overwhelmed by the increases in rsv and flu cases, more than three-quarters of hospitals have seen a rise and seven states have seen a 99% increase. according to the cdc, infants six months and younger are getting hospitalized with rsv at seven times the rate of infection before the covid-19 pandemic in 2019. the children s hospital association is asking the biden administration to declare a health emergency saying these unprecedented levels of rsv happening with growing flu rates, ongoing high numbers of
overwhelmed by a surge in rsv and flu cases. and they want the federal government to do something about it. here s cnn s jacqueline howard. declare a national emergency. that s what some leading pediatric medical groups are asking president biden and hhs secretary jaxavier becerra to d in response to the surge of rsv and flew impacting children s hospitals. the american academy of pediatrics and the children s hospital association sent a joint letter to the white house earlier this week saying that declaring an emergency would allow for hospitals to receive additional support and share resources. the vice president of the infection diseases society of america says hospital systems all across the u.s. are strained right now because of these respiratory viruses. have a listen. rsv has already strained the hospital systems to capacity or