{"id":140510,"date":"2026-02-20T22:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140510\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:31:07","slug":"rsv-cases-hospitalizations-at-high-levels-in-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140510\/","title":{"rendered":"RSV cases, hospitalizations at high levels in New York state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK STATE (WRGB) \u2014 RSV cases are high in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Department of Health says there were 5,785 RSV cases and 819 hospitalizations in the week ending Feb. 14. That\u2019s higher than influenza and COVID19 hospitalizations combined.<\/p>\n<p>The health department says it\u2019s also the ninth week in a row RSV cases have either held steady or increased.<\/p>\n<p>The disease poses serious risk to newborns, infants, older adults, and adults with chronic health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The department is encouraging people to get the RSV vaccination to help protect themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK STATE (WRGB) \u2014 RSV cases are high in New York State. The New York State Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-140510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}