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Utah hospitals seeing spike in child admissions from winter viruses
There are a lot of sick kids in Utah right now. Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital facilities in both Salt Lake City and Lehi are full due to an increase in respiratory syncytial virus, influenza and other illnesses. “Right now, we are seeing spikes in RSV and influenza as well as other viruses circulating, and this has led to a big influx of children being hospitalized,” said Dr. Nathan Money, a pediatric hospitalist at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital and University of Utah Health and an assistant professor of pediatrics at University of Utah School of ...