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What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You About That Winter Cold
RSV hospitalization risk hides behind symptoms you dismiss as routine. You're coughing, congested, feeling run down. Winter in Canada. Everyone gets sick. You're over 50, you have mild asthma or diabetes, but you're functional. You wait it out. Then you're in hospital and everything changes. One in eight patients hospitalized with RSV never return to their homes. They require long-term care facilities, assisted living arrangements, permanent caregivers. The virus doesn't just make you temporarily sick. It permanently relocates you.
Why aren't doctors warning patients? Dr. Palmay calls it…
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