December 29, 2023- According to a study published on December 26 in The Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA), pediatric cases of respiratory syncytial virus led to more emergency hospitalizations than the omicron variant of COVID-19 and the flu. Researchers analyzed data from over 500,000 patients (under 18) who were hospitalized with the virus between August 2021 and September 2022.
It was found that the hospitalization rate for children who tested positive for RSV was 81.7% while the rate was 31.5% for omicron and 27.7% for the flu.