Local health care providers are seeing a concerning increase in the number of patients with walking pneumonia—especially young children, who are not normally as affected as other cohorts.
“With walking pneumonia patients are not that sick, so they don’t need to be on bed rest— hence the term walking pneumonia,” explains Jasmeet Singh Bhogal, medical director for MedStar Health Urgent Care. He works primarily in the Ballston and Alexandria offices of the 33-location urgent care system.
This respiratory illness is a less severe form of pneumonia that has similar symptoms: cough, fever, sore throat, headache, chest pain and fatigue…