Local experts are warning of a triple-demic – with COVID, flu, and RSV cases in children all climbing for what is expected to be the worst season in a decade.
As CBS 2's Tara Molina reported Tuesday, numbers are already on the rise following Thanksgiving get-togethers.
That applies specifically with children, Luna said. She said the health system is"being stressed out as we speak." COVID, the flu, and RSV are all showing up right now with very similar symptoms, according to the doctors with whom we spoke."Congestion, runny nose, coughing - and that might be it," added Luna.
"The cases we were expecting, the positive cases, we're starting to account for those," she said."Two weeks from now, then we start seeing hospitalizations from those cases." Hasbrouck also said those experiencing symptoms should stay out of the workplace and congregate symptoms – and those who do not need to be at the hospital should not go.
Lurie Children's Hospital Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control Dr. Larry Kociolek provided this update about the state of capacity and concerns at that hospital:
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