Column Health & Medicine Here’s what we know about upcoming vaccines and antibodies against RSV Clinical trials suggest the preventives protect against the respiratory illness By Tina Hesman Saey Senior Writer, Molecular Biology April 27, 2023 at 7:00 am Updated September 22, 2023 at 3:56 pm About 3.6 million children were hospitalized and more than 100,000 died from RSV in 2019. Vaccines and preventive antibody injections in clinical trials may soon ease the burden of infection on kids and older adults too.