Key Points

In Week 45 (November 3–9, 2025), the week marking the return to school after the fall break, the number of emergency department visits and hospitalizations following such visits increased among children aged 2–14 (+28% and +18%, or +12,450 visits and +735 hospitalizations, respectively), while they decreased among children under 2 years of age (-8% and -9%, or -1,736 visits and -285 hospitalizations). Indicators remained stable among adults.

The increase in activity among children aged 2–14 was driven primarily by visits for:

• Trauma (+41%, or +6,133 visits),

• Vomiting (+10%, or +318 visits) and abdominal pain (+34%, or +987 visits),

• Malaise (+25%, or +100 visits), headaches/migraines (+43%, or +282 visits), and isolated fever (+8%, or +95 visits),

• Asthma attacks (+20%, or +233 visits),

• Flu/flu-like syndrome (+55%, or +72 visits),

• Suicidal behavior (+56%, or +78 visits).

Visits for suicidal behavior are also on the rise among 15- to 44-year-olds (+9%, or +80 visits).
Visits for respiratory conditions (ENT infections, suspected COVID-19, acute bronchitis, pneumonia) are mostly stable among 2- to 14-year-olds and decreasing in other age groups. This is also the case for bronchiolitis in children under 1 year of age (-17%, or -264 visits).