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An estimated 87% of infants will have experienced an RSV infection by the age of 18 months, and nearly all children will have been infected by 3 years. In the United States, RSV is responsible for up to 20% of acute respiratory infection hospitalizations in children under the age of 5.
Each year, RSV infections typically result in about 58,000-80,000 hospitalizations among children aged below 5 years, and 60,000-160,000 hospitalizations among 65-year-olds and above in the United ...
RSV numbers appear to have peaked in recent weeks and are dropping. COVID-19 was at a 5.4% test positivity for the week that ended Jan. 25, and 1.6% of all deaths in the U.S. that week were linked ...
This year's RSV numbers are more similar to those reported in 2021, which had 328 cases in October and 229 in November. Fewer face masks, more triple swabbing might have spiked 2022 RSV cases
Respiratory illnesses like influenza, COVID-19, and RSV are surging across the United States, according to CDC data. Norovirus has also been pegged to a large number of cases in recent weeks. Here ...
“I’ve had so many patients’ families coming in over the past week saying, ‘Tell me about this “new” RSV virus,’ but RSV has been around forever,” says Danelle Fisher, M.D., a ...
How common is it for adults to get RSV? Every year, an estimated 2.2 million seniors in the U.S. contract symptomatic respiratory syncytial virus, 177,000 are hospitalized and around 14,000 die of it.
Among U.S. kids under age 5, RSV typically leads to 58,000 hospitalizations and up to 500 deaths in a year. For adults 65 and older, RSV causes 177,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths yearly.