RSV
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PublishedDecember 1, 2022
Parents looking for children’s Tylenol, ibuprofen find empty shelves
Demand from waves of RSV, flu and covid are causing sporadic shortages of children' drugs like Ibuprofen and Tylenol for some hospitals and retail stores.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2022
RSV, flu, covid and staffing shortages push some hospitals to capacity
The combination of a swarm of respiratory illnesses, staffing shortages and nursing home closures has sparked the state of distress visited upon the already overburdened health-care system.
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PublishedNovember 4, 2022
U.S. flu season off to a fast start as other viruses spread
Reports of flu are already high in 17 states, and the hospitalization rate hasn’t been this high this early since the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2022
For decades, failure in hunt for vaccine for child respiratory virus. Now, success.
Two RSV vaccines, one developed by pharmaceutical giant GSK and another from Pfizer, have protected older adults in large-scale trials in recent months.
