Publications by authors named "Saamia I Masoom"
Background: Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, RSV infections deviated from a previously reliable epidemiologic pattern of presentation. To investigate whether this change in RSV seasonality resulted in a change in frequency and severity of RSV infections, this single center retrospective study compares demographic and hospital factors during RSV seasons before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Included were patients under age 5 years who tested positive for RSV only by RT-PCR in our pediatric emergency departments during the last three RSV seasons before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020, as compared to the first three seasons after the pandemic started.