The Doctors of the Therapeutic Clinic of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Theodora Psaltopoulou, Panos Malandrakis, Giannis Danasis and Thanos Dimopoulos (Rector of EKPA) summarize the latest data on the hospitalization of children.
As the new strain spreads to the US, all unvaccinated people are at increased risk of getting the disease, including children. In the US, the average number of new pediatric hospitalizations per day increased by 30-50% from previous weeks. The data from New York show a fivefold increase in the number of children treated with covid. In the US around 20-25% of children aged 5-11 have been vaccinated. The vaccine is much safer than the virus itself states the pediatrician Dr. Sallie Permar, as the symptoms are such, that may lead to hospitalization.
Regarding the opening of schools, he said that due to its great value for children, preventive measures should be open and implemented, such as vaccination of children, use of a mask, frequent testing and proper hand hygiene.
More than 500 children have been admitted to hospital in the United Kingdom last week until December 26, while 109 children under the age of 5 were hospitalized in two days. The definition of a child admitted with COVID-19 to this country includes those who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 14 days before hospitalization, or those children who are positively diagnosed while being treated.
The British government recommends that around 330,000 vulnerable children aged 5-11 be vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine.
There is no data on whether these increases in hospitalizations of children with covid are conjunctural, whether the cases are due to the new strain omicron itself, or are due to higher transmissibility, if it is mainly family dispersion. In both countries, with the data so far, the opening of schools is expected in early 2022
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