Healthcare is under pressure, says Louis Bont, pediatric infectious disease specialist at UMC Utrecht. All children’s ICUs across the country are full of children with the respiratory infection. Of the twelve beds in the ICU at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, eight beds are occupied by children with the RS virus. It is very busy, but it is comparable to previous years, says Bont. Due to the crowds, planned operations are postponed, he says. “Acute operations will continue.”