RSV vaccine could soon be available for healthy babies Respiratory Syncytial Virus sends between 75,000 and 125,000 young children to the hospital every year Updated: 10:30 PM CDT Jun 3, 2022 There could soon be an RSV vaccine for healthy babies. RSV, or Respiratory Syncytial Virus, sends between 75,000 and 125,000 young children to the hospital every year. Dr. Michael Meyer, in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Children's Wisconsin, says adults with an RSV infection might not even realize it.