Dr. Anthony Fauci was also asked whether more schools may need to close as more than 100,000 parents stayed home with their children in October.
RSV cases are causing pediatric hospitals to fill up as the virus that disproportionately affects infants is being spread across the U.S.
Earlier this month, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association said that RSV cases were rising to the level of a public health emergency. The organizations sent a letter to President Joe Biden requesting the federal government declare an emergency to help provide hospitals with additional resources to combat the virus.
“But it also occupies all the beds and children who have a number of other diseases that require intensive care or ICU, they don't have the bed for it. So if you get to that situation, that's approaching an emergency. So when the nurses and the pediatric associations are saying this is really critical, it is.”
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