According to the report of Becker Hospital Review on the 15th, the National Nurses Federation of the United States published an article on its official website on the 14th, criticizing the US government for giving up epidemic prevention measures prematurely, which led to a surge in the number of cases of respiratory infectious diseases such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in children this year.
The article said that the increase in RSV infection and related hospitalizations in the United States this year was not due to the "immune debt" caused by mask orders and home orders during the COVID-19 epidemic, but due to the failure of public health in the United States. Deborah Berger, president of the National Nurses Federation, said in the article that because the U.S. government has completely abandoned public health measures that help protect the public from COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases, the infection caused by RSV and other respiratory viruses is much more serious this year than in previous years. Berger criticized that the concept of "immune debt" advocated by the CDC is not only unscientific, but also harmful to public health. After RSV infection, the human body only produces partial immunity, which is still vulnerable to repeated infection in the future. Therefore, the government needs to strengthen public health measures to prevent infection.
Burger pointed out that the United States has not taken multi-level epidemic prevention measures to protect public health. "Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States, the National Nurses Federation has been advocating multi-level infection prevention methods, including wearing masks, keeping social distance, vaccination, virus detection, contact tracing, home isolation and other measures." Berger said that before everyone is safe, medical personnel are in an unsafe environment. He hoped that the U.S. government departments can formulate strict epidemic prevention and control standards to effectively protect the public and medical personnel.