Alberta doctors renew calls for RSV shot for all newborns, after hundreds hospitalized – CBC
Province to offer newer preventative injection to high-risk infants this fall
May 20, 2025
On the heels of a fall and winter that saw hundreds of Alberta babies and toddlers hospitalized and two young children die due to RSV, questions are being raised about whether some of these severe outcomes could have been prevented.
And while there are fresh calls for the Alberta government to offer a preventative injection to all newborns, the province says it is taking steps to protect those at highest risk.
According to Alberta’s respiratory virus dashboard, 1,544 Alberta children and teens have been hospitalized due to RSV since the end of August, including 150 intensive care unit admissions.
More than half of those hospitalized — 810 of them — were under one year of age. A further 614 were between the ages of one and four.
One infant under the age of one died and another child between the ages of five and nine also died.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-rsv-newborns-hundreds-hospitalized-1.7537008
