Omicron is the most recent variant of Covid-19, but possibly not the last.
Therefore, an editorial in the British medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases (which turns 200 in 2023) states that part of the population that remains unvaccinated maintains the risk of mutations and the evolution of Sars-Cov-2.
After several attempts to the contrary, the Ministry of Health informs that next Tuesday (14) the vaccination campaign for children aged 5 to 11 years will begin.
Also at the Lancet specializing in infectious diseases, Professor Erika Molteni and colleagues show the importance of applying the vaccine against Covid-19 in children.
It looks at the duration of the illness and identifies the symptoms that school-age children in the UK have.
The most frequent symptoms in 15,597 children (out of a total of 258,790 children aged 5 to 17 years) were headache (62.2%), fatigue (55%), fever (47%), cough (42%) and anosmia. or loss of smell (77.9%).
Neurological symptoms were not reported, but the authors point out that any persistent illness can lead to adverse mental health outcomes and affect school attendance.
The mean duration of illness for older children was seven days and, for younger children, five days. In 1,734 children, the disease lasted for at least 28 days and only 25 (1.8%) of 1,379 children had symptoms for at least 56 days.
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