FORT COLLINS, Colo. — With an uptick in hospitalizations due to respiratory illnesses — including COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV — local hospitals have implemented seasonal visitor restrictions.
UCHealth and Banner Health facilities in Northern Colorado are limiting younger visitors and asking visitors who don't feel well to stay home to avoid spreading illness.
As of Monday, UCHealth's Northern Colorado hospitals were treating 19 patients with COVID-19, spokesperson Kelly Tracer said. COVID is still the dominant illness the health system is seeing so far this season, but flu and RSV have ticked up in the past two weeks, she said.
“We are officially in respiratory virus season. That includes everything you can think of from the common cold to more severe illnesses,” said Dr. Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth, in a news release announcing restrictions at UCHealth hospitals and clinics. And now is the perfect time for Coloradans to protect themselves and others, she added.
> Read the full story at the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
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