Most children do not worsen COVID-19, Big Confirmation Study

A large European study has confirmed a rare bit ‘of good news about COVID-19: Children seem to be spared, especially from the worst consequences. The paper published June 25 in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, also less than 1% suggests that children who develop COVID-19 will die from it, and the vast majority do not require intensive care. On the contrary, in some of the countries affected most of the world, case fatality ratios, adults are estimated (although it is used preliminary data) to be greater than 10%. The new study analyzed data from nearly 600 cases of children COVID-19 patients from 21 different European countries. The children ranged in age from three days are 18 years of age, and boys from a little ‘more than half of the group. Three-quarters of the children had no pre-existing diseases. but only 8% of intensive care were admitted more than half of children in hospital is required, the researchers found. Only four patients died of their disease. This works with a mortality of 0.69%. In the whole population, the real rate is probably much lower, the researchers write, as with COVID-19 infected many cases children so delicate they never need medical care in the first place, leave in a hospital to be by himself transformed . For example, 16% of children in the study showed symptoms never COVID-19; many of them have been tested only because they had close contact with another infected person. The researchers found that children younger than one month old, rather than older pediatric intensive care unit, but they need Interestingly, all four patients, two of the above 10 age sons were dead, medical conditions pre-existing they died, a known risk factor for severe disease. As with adults, the boys were more likely than girls to be requiring intensive care, according to the study. “Co-infection” with other viruses such as the flu or another strain of Corona seemed the severity of the disease to increase a child what “write the researchers could affect the winter have 2020-21, when the incidence other viral respiratory infections … it’s going to increase. “the study data were first in a series of reports on a possible link between the proposal and from April 1 to April 24 collected, 19-COVID a pediatric inflammatory disease similar to Kawasaki disease, this condition, which can lead to shock and fatal heart damage is very rare, and researchers to determine exactly how, if at all, refers crown. The new document is presented as the mean age of patients COVID-19 tends to bottom in the US The change in demographics mostly by young adults do not seem to be guided children become infected in large numbers, as well as better testing protocols. Research in the US and abroad, still beating the children much less likely to develop a severe case of adults crown.
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