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Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, is not new. Symptoms resemble the common cold and typically clear up in 1-2 weeks, so most years it blends into the range of cold-weather viruses that bring us cough and congestion.

As most American parents already know, cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a common illness of childhood, are surging this year.

Top Boston doctors debate whether students should mask up after a study found that mandates cut COVID cases in Boston-Area schools, plus talk about flu and RSV during NBC10 Boston’s weekly “COVID Q+A” series.

COVID-19 bivalent booster is now approved by the CDC and FDA for children as young as 5.

Pencils, notebooks and backpacks are on parents’ back-to-school check lists but what about immunizations?

View our tips on how to speak with your children about coronavirus.

Eight-week-old Abegael spent six long weeks in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Tufts Medical Center in Boston battling respiratory failure due to RSV.

Tufts Medical Center Director of Child Life Services, Andrea Colliton, offers ten tips to help make children’s life at home feel a little more normal during this abnormal time.

Massachusetts residents who were vaccinated in-state can now request, view, and/or print their own COVID-19 SMART Health card.