How Children's Hospitals Are Handling The RSV Surge

RSV, a respiratory illness that can be severe in infants because their lungs aren't strong enough, is overwhelming hospitals in parts of the U.S.

Kelly Soares recalls when her 11-month-old Brielle was in the intensive care unit for RSV at Phoenix Children's Hospital.

"It was hard to deal with, to be honest, to see your child suffer and have such difficulty breathing and lethargic, and there was really nothing that you could do to help," Soares said. "They prepared us for the worst. She wasn't doing well at all."

Arizona's health department reported more than four and a half times their normal RSV rates in October.