KGUN 9 On Your Side spoke with one new mom who's especially worried about RSV this fall. She's working to do anything she can to protect her baby.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Hospitals across the country are seeing an increase in RSV cases among children. RSV coupled with the Flu and COVID is becoming a tripledemic for children this fall.
"You know, I'm in quite a bit of mom groups like for new moms on Facebook and I've seen so many women post that my baby is in intensive care," Amanda Miller-Cruz shared."One lady, her baby had two collapsed lungs and another lady her baby had a collapsed lung and pneumonia, all of it from RSV. So it's really scary."
"Well, you know, COVID was scary as it was, and I got vaccinated. I got two vaccines while I was pregnant with her," Miller-Cruz said."So I'm like, well, at least she hopefully has some, some antibodies from that, but I know there's no vaccination for RSV. And so it's scary and of course, she can't wear a mask."
"Well, I think we are worried about the combination, but we also are seeing an increase in RSV especially in the littles those four years and younger," Cullen explained."Right now the numbers in Pima County are about double what they were last year. That's still not a huge number. But that in itself is worrisome to us."
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