{"id":1587,"date":"2022-11-28T15:18:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:12","slug":"san-francisco-bay-area-childrens-hospitals-enacting-contingency-plans-to-deal-with-rsv-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/11\/28\/san-francisco-bay-area-childrens-hospitals-enacting-contingency-plans-to-deal-with-rsv-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Bay Area children\u2019s hospitals enacting contingency plans to deal with RSV surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/bay-area-hospitals-rsv-surge-17604448.php\">SF Gate<\/a>) As a surge in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases sweeps across the Bay Area, the region\u2019s children\u2019s hospitals are enacting contingency plans to deal with an increase in patients.\u00a0UCSF Benioff Children&#8217;s Hospital in Mission Bay has erected a tent with seven additional beds, and the hospital\u2019s Oakland location is using an annex with 12 extra beds. RSV may present as a mild cold in adults but can cause serious lung infections in young children, especially infants. Chief Medical Officer Joan Zoltanski said the hospital is used to seeing a surge in respiratory illnesses in the winter, but this large volume of cases is higher than normal and is also happening much earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SF Gate) As a surge in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases sweeps across the Bay Area, the region\u2019s children\u2019s hospitals are enacting contingency plans to deal with an increase in patients.\u00a0UCSF Benioff Children&#8217;s Hospital in Mission Bay has erected a tent with seven additional beds, and the hospital\u2019s Oakland location is using an annex with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rsv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}