New RSV vaccine lowers risk of potentially serious illness in infants

RSV season is ramping up and health care providers are hopeful that a new shot will help protect young children from the virus.
A Eugene family experienced RSV last year when their baby went from healthy to being hospitalized just two days later.
“They had to give her an IV because she couldn’t swallow,” says Angela Albin, recalling when her daughter, Evie, fell ill. “She was breathing 80 breaths per minutes. They just kept cranking up the oxygen and she just kept getting worse.”