259 "cases" over 2-3 months and they're near collapse? Something stinks here!------‘We’re 100% full’: RSV surge filling C.S. Mott hospital beds, similar to COVID-19

‘We’re 100% full’: RSV surge filling C.S. Mott hospital beds, similar to COVID-19

"ANN ARBOR, MI - Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is not COVID-19 in terms of viral severity, health officials say. 

• But the pediatric illness is straining Michigan Medicine operations much like COVID-19 did.
• Hospital beds at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor are 100% full due to a surge in RSV cases, said Luanne Thomas Ewald, C.S. Mott and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital COO.
• Similar to COVID-19 hospitalizations filling hospital beds, RSV hospitalizations are forcing hospital leaders to find ways to increase bed capacity and bolster staffing to deal with the viral surge, Ewald said.
• C.S. Mott has seen 259 RSV cases this fall, a 46% increase from last year, Michigan Medicine officials said...