CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- If you've been buying for acold and cough medicines, chances are store shelves aren't afloat stocked.
With an aboriginal flu play and uptick successful respiratory illnesses, implicit the antagonistic medicines are successful abbreviated supply.
Pharmacist Darren Lew of the Medicine Shoppe successful Clovis says dissimilar the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic, the abbreviated proviso isn't attributed to radical stocking up for a rainy day.
"Our implicit the antagonistic medicines to dainty acold symptoms person been hard to travel by and determination are times erstwhile we can't adjacent get it to enactment connected our shelves," Lew said. "This play is other atrocious due to the fact that we've opened up and we're getting backmost to our lives and I deliberation illnesses are spreading a small easier."
Valley Children's Hospital is averaging 350 to astir 400 children successful their exigency section per day.
"We're decidedly starting to spot that surge close present having our positivity complaint went up implicit forty percent from the week erstwhile to past week," said Complex Care Pediatrician Dr. Carmela Sosa.
That fig is apt higher arsenic not each children are tested for RSV.
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Last week they confirmed 182 affirmative cases of RSV, up from 66 the week prior.
80 of those children had to beryllium hospitalized.
"We're seeing an summation successful the fig of influenza cases arsenic well, conscionable not arsenic speedy oregon not arsenic large of a spike arsenic the RSV cases," Dr. Sosa said.
Children who are the highest hazard for complications associated with RSV are babies that are premature, nether the property of 6 months oregon person underlying lung disease.
Symptoms and dispersed of RSV are akin to the communal cold.
"Most radical are conscionable infectious for a week oregon 2 but immoderate younger kids tin dispersed oregon shed the microorganism for a fig of weeks," Dr. Sosa said.
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