10-21-2021, 09:42 AM
Children sick with COVID and other bugs flooded hospitals in the fall. Doctors worry what winter will bring. (yahoo.com)
Quote:The 190-bed facility is about two-thirds full during a typical fall. This year, it has been jammed with young patients since July.
Dozens have come in coughing, wheezing and feverish with COVID-19, which is sickening more kids than it did in the pandemic’s early months. Many more young patients have arrived with severe infections from other respiratory viruses, which normally do not strike in full force until late autumn or early winter.