The American Academy of Pediatrics and Children’s Hospital Association are calling on the Biden administration to declare an emergency to a support a national*response to an "alarming surge of pediatric respiratory illnesses, including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza."*
The organizations say they sent a letter this week to Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra as "Significant capacity issues in pediatric hospitals and communities require flexibilities that can only be provided through a formal emergency declaration by the President and the HHS Secretary."*
"President Biden and Secretary Becerra have been invaluable leaders to children’s hospitals across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we implore them to renew their commitment to pediatric health care and give us the resources necessary to control the ongoing RSV and flu surge with the continuing children’s mental health emergency,"*CHA CEO Mark Wietecha said in a statement. "Our system is stretched to its limit and without immediate attention the crisis will only worsen."*
The organizations say emergency declarations "would allow waiver of certain Medicare, Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) requirements so that hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers may share resources in a coordinated effort to care for their community and have access to emergency funding to keep up with the growing demands, specifically related to workforce support."*
https://www.foxnews.com/health/ameri...nted-rsv-surge
Political suicide to take any action re any illnesses now in America ..
Sad and strange few years