Two people, both over 65, die of RSV in NY State

(Local News) Health leaders said there have been more than 2,200 lab-confirmed RSV cases in the county, mostly babies and toddlers. The virus puts about 80,000 children in the hospital in the U.S. every year but it can also harm older people. “For three years, all these babies being born, none of them get infected because there’s no RSV or influenza circulating,” said Angela Branche, MD, an Associate Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at UR Medicine. “And because of all those mitigation strategies to decrease transmission, then you hit a season like now where there is flu and RSV in the community, you have all of these babies and young children who are susceptible because they’ve never been infected and so you’ll start to see huge numbers of cases.”