Pediatric ICUs face bed shortage amid RSV surge
Pediatric ICUs face bed shortage amid RSV surge: "It's not hyperbole to call it a crisis"
Nov 23, 2022 by CBS News
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- CBS Evening News November 22, 2022 / 7:05 PM / CBS News Pediatric ICUs face bed shortage amid RSV surge Pediatric ICUs face bed shortage amid RSV surge 02:20 Boston — For every patient discharged from the pediatric intensive care unit at Mass General for Children in Boston, three more are waiting for that bed.
- Across the country, 36 states are seeing elevated levels of RSV cases compared to this time last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Hospitals in 10 states are at or above 80% capacity, according to the Health and Human Services Department.
- "They should know that all of us in health care are doing everything we can so that when a child is sick, we can deliver the care immediately in a timely fashion," he said.
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