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9th November 2021
09:00am GMT

There has been a 35% increase in children's hospital admissions this year.
Head of Crumlin's ED, Dr. Carol Blackburn told the Irish Examiner, “Our attendances this year are up 35 percent on our attendances in the early winter of 2019.
She added, "We are averaging over 150 children a day through our emergency department."
Blackburn echoed Martin's concerns about the respiratory syncytial virus.
“We have a big population of 0-year-olds, one-year-olds or two-year-olds who have never come across these viruses before, so they are getting them back to back, one after another.”
RSV is a common cause of infection in infancy. Nearly all children will suffer from it before they are 2-years-old.
It is usually mild and will clear within a week or two. Symptoms are similar to that of a common cold.
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