Tucson Medical Center has been seeing a surge in RSV cases and one of their doctors said it could be a result of the pandemic.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Having respiratory syncytial virus, or as it’s better known, RSV, is a scary experience Shauntel Pinnick was hoping her four-year-old daughter wouldn’t have to go through again.
Dr. Sean Elliott, Tucson Medical Center’s pediatric infectious diseases specialist said kids can have a cough, congestion and low grade fever when they contract RSV, and and in some cases the skin between their ribs could pull in when they breath. “They’ve not been exposed to viruses. They don’t have their innate antibody protection. Here we are today. The masks are off. The kids are in school, it’s starting to get a little bit cold and the viruses are having a heyday,” Elliott said.
She said the doctors at TMC took great care of her daughter, but she had to take her daughter home because the RSV wasn’t in her lungs.
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