(Local News) Pediatric intensive care units are filled to capacity and many young children are waiting on emergency treatment as hospitals in Boston work to combat a surge in respiratory syncytial virus cases, or RSV, officials said Thursday. They are calling it a ‘capacity disaster’ at Massachusetts General Hospital. The Mass General Brigham hospital system was inundated with 2,000 RSV cases in the month of October alone, and already overcrowded emergency departments are facing significant issues as new cases continue to pile up, according to Brian Cummings, the medical director of the department of pediatrics at Mass General for Children.
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