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RSV wave hammers hospitals — but vaccines and treatments are coming

As the respiratory illness helps to fuel a ‘tripledemic’, Pfizer and GSK race to get jabs approved.
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In the past few months, the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been sending children under the age of 5 to hospital at alarming rates in the United States and Europe. As paediatric units fill beyond capacity, and physicians contend with a ‘tripledemic’ of RSV, influenza and COVID-19, some have been calling for a state of emergency to be declared.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04434-5

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