Texas Doctors Say Respiratory Infections Other Than COVID-19 Filling Up Pediatric Wards

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

August 26, 2021

In the midst of a pandemic hospitals across Texas are also dealing with other infections that are sickening residents and sending many to already crowded medical centers.

Texas Children’s Hospital is seeing a surge of coronavirus cases — nearly all of them caused by the Delta variant. Not only are kids showing up in greater numbers, but they’re sicker, too.

On top of it, many are infected with a second virus at the same time — usually respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

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