![]() The winter flu season usually doesn’t get going until December or January. With COVID-19 rates going down, “they’re coming back full force,” he said ![]() It bullied every other virus for two years,” said Griffiths, ER medical director of a Children’s Health Care of Atlanta downtown hospital. “I tell parents that COVID was the ultimate bully. Mark Griffiths describes the mix as a “viral jambalaya.” He said the children’s hospitals in his area have at least 30% more patients than usual for this time of year, with many patients forced to wait in emergency rooms for beds to open up. And COVID-19 is still contributing to more than 3,000 hospital admissions each day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is happening when children’s hospitals already are dealing with a surge of illnesses from RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, a common cause of coldlike symptoms that can be serious for infants and the elderly. Those 27 states are mostly in the South and Southwest but include a growing number in the Northeast, Midwest and West. ![]() More than half the states have high or very high levels of flu, unusually high for this early in the season, the government reported Friday. As Americans head into the holiday season, a rapidly intensifying flu season is straining hospitals already overburdened with patients sick from other respiratory infections. ![]()
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