Hundreds of infants in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn are sick now with a common respiratory virus that typically does not circulate during the spring, raising fears as to whether the infections in those communities could again become an indicator of what’s to come elsewhere in New York City and the country.
At least 15 patients from Dr. Israel Zyskind’s pediatrics practice in Borough Park are hospitalized currently with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a virus that manifests as little more than a common cold in adults but can be dangerous for infants and toddlers.
Typically, Zyskind said, no more than a handful of children from his practice would be hospitalized at any given time because of RSV. And those hospitalizations would come during the winter, not as the weather warms.
The recent explosion of RSV cases in Orthodox Brooklyn is on New York City’s radar. According to the city’s Health Department, there were 10 documented cases of RSV in Brooklyn during the last week of February. During the week of April 4-10, there were 294.
The cases are appearing in Williamsburg, Borough Park, Bensonhurst, Kensington and Midwood.
Read more at Times of Israel.
{Matzav.com}
And isnt this a vaccine preventable illness???
No, it isn’t. There is no vaccine, and there is no conspiracy to demonize the frum community. There are, however, basic facts and numbers.
my baby in Lakewood has it too…
my baby in Lakewood has it too…
There is no vaccine for RSV.
There is no vaccine for RSV.
No vaccine for rsv
https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-019-4109-x
Maybe some medical personnel want to comment on this article above.
Only premies are given the RSV shot. Now it seems it will be mandated for all.
If you’ve lost your complete trust in doctors and nurses after their hospital holocaust, how can you leave newborns in nurseries in hospitals? Or perhaps pregnant women or nursing mothers got the shot and this is one of the reactions? Who knows? True, there’s momentarily no choice, but something MUST be done.
Here’s what happened to my teenager when he was a 4 month old: His was hospitalized with RSV, his oxygen being low. The hospital doctors kept on giving him Albuterol and kept on saying that this is a virus that will clear out by itself in a few days, and there is no other treatment. Well, few days turned into a week, the Albuterol was not working on him, he developed a fewer and high white blood cell count, he ended up moving from a regular hospital bed to an ICU, but the hospital idiots kept on repeating the same mantra and refusing to consider anything beyond Albuterol and Tylenol, no antibiotics because RSV is a virus while they refused to consider a secondary bacterial infection, as was their “protocol”, and they would rather let a patient die than deviate from a protocol. Our baby kept on going from bad to worst, while the hospital doctors would just shrug their shoulders. While in ICU, we witnessed an older girl who was brought in, and kept on screaming that she can’t breathe, while the hospital doctors would ignore her and say ridiculous things such as “if you can scream you can breathe”; this girl died the next day. Finally, we realized that we don’t want to become another victim of the protocol idiocy, and we brought in an outside doctor into the hospital, who promptly prescribed Xopenex instead of Albuterol, and antibiotics for the secondary bacterial infection that was causing the elevated white cell count. Albuterol doesn’t work on a certain percentage of patients, while Xopenex works beautifully, but because of pricing politics, they give everyone Albuterol and refuse even to consider Xopenex unless you really really demand it. My son got better immediately once they gave him the new prescription: he started breathing properly, his fever went down, his white blood cell count normalized. We were out of the ICU and the hospital in a day. Please share this with anyone who has a baby hospitalized with RSV.
And of course it is not in any way possible(sarcasm) that RSV rates didn’t change but the corrupt establishment cooked the statistics to classify RSV as covid in the last year, while now they are slowly backing up from the scamdemic, hence there are “more” non covid diagnoses. Another likely reason is that the parents (very reasonably so) refused to abandon their RSV infants to the hospitals which used corona as an excuse to escape supervision from parents and relatives.