Flu season has Michigan kids sicker with ‘many, many’ needing ventilation

So sick that they need an artificial lung. Every fourth patient is in their teens.

Flu season has Michigan kids sicker with ‘many, many’ needing ventilation

The typical patient in the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital this March is an infant battling respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). It’s a heart-wrenching scene: babies on various levels of breathing support machines while caregivers and parents keep them…

The flu season has hit younger patients hard. An unusually high proportion of young people have become so ill that they have needed ECMO treatment.