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RSV bronchiolitis season 2021 has arrived, so be prepared!
  1. Faris Hussain1,
  2. Sarah Kotecha2,
  3. Martin Oliver Edwards3
  1. 1 Children's Hospital for Wales, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK
  2. 2 General Paediatrics, Children's Hospital for Wales, Cardiff, UK
  3. 3 Child Health, Cardiff University, School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Faris Hussain, Children's Hospital for Wales, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff CF14 4XW, UK; Hussainf7{at}cardiff.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2021-322835

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    Bronchiolitis is the most common cause for hospital admissions for young children. Predominantly, the causative agent is respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which is transmitted similarly to SARS-CoV-2. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led to non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce the spread of the virus, including handwashing and social distancing. We took the opportunity to see how NPIs have impacted on RSV. We reviewed data retrospectively from children admitted to the Children’s Hospital for Wales (CHfW) between 1 October and 31 March from 2015 to 2021. Further details can be seen in our report.1

    Over the five preceding winters to the 2020/2021 season, a total of 2922 patients presented with bronchiolitis after exclusion criteria was applied, with 1307 infants admitted to the hospital with bronchiolitis (44.7%). A total of 1214 swabs were taken and there was an average of 115 RSV positive swabs per season. In comparison, for the 2020/2021 seasons, 39 presented …

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    • Contributors MOE was involved in the planning and design, and supervised the data collection and helped to draft the first manuscript and all subsequent versions. FH wrote the draft manuscript and helped to collect and analyse the data, and agreed all subsequent versions. SK helped to conduct the study by reviewing all versions of the manuscript and checking for data accuracy.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.