Children's hospitals across Georgia seeing influx of RSV patients

Children’s hospitals are seeing a surge in RSV patients earlier in the season than usual.

Pediatric hospitals across Georgia and the South are working together to manage an influx of RSV patients. The weeks-long nationwide surge in the respiratory virus known as RSV has left Georgia children’s hospital beds full. 

RSV can affect people of all ages, and symptoms typically include fever, cough that may progress to wheezing or difficulty breathing and runny nose. The infection usually clears up in a week or two.

But according to the CDC, babies are especially vulnerable to severe infection, including pneumonia and bronchiolitis.