COVID-19 Mitigation Measures Disrupted RSV Seasons, Leading To More Hospitalizations In 2021 And 2022 Among Young Children, Study Finds

Healio (6/13, Weldon) reports, “COVID-19 mitigation measures disrupted the circulation of respiratory syncytial virus, leading to atypical season in 2021 and 2022 that saw higher rates of hospitalization among young children, according to research published in Pediatrics.” Researchers found that “in the five seasons from 2016 through 2020, there were a total of 4,243 hospitalizations for RSV among young children at the seven hospitals compared with 1,278 and 1,485 alone in the atypical seasons in 2021 and 2022.”