Winter Rant

This is like the early days of the COVID pandemic all over again, except this time, it is impacting children.

From the original report:

“The crisis standards took effect Monday at 7 p.m. The shift is driven by a surge in pediatric patients with RV, a childhood respiratory virus that is particularly dangerous for infants, and a statewide shortage of nurses.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20221123000826/https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/21/ohsu-shifts-to-emergency-mode-amid-rise-in-serious-pediatric-rsv-cases/

– vijay, witnessing multiple failures in public health policy