Canadian children's hospitals overwhelmed as early flu surge strains capacity

Children are experiencing severe illness requiring hospitalization; pediatric hospital emergency departments are overwhelmed, forcing use of overflow spaces and straining staff capacity.

Each winter, the ancient negotiation between human vulnerability and viral persistence reasserts itself — but this year, Canada's children's hospitals are meeting that reckoning earlier and harder than most had prepared for. An aggressive H3N2 influenza strain has driven pediatric emergency departments in Ottawa and Montreal to their limits, with hospitalizations doubling and patient volumes reaching levels that even seasoned medical staff describe as unprecedented. The surge, concentrated now in Ontario and Quebec, carries the quiet certainty of a wave still building — public health forecaste

Canadian children's hospitals overwhelmed as early flu surge strains capacity

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