Li-Jo schrieb am 08.12.2021 08:47:
Immer noch keine Impfangebote für Kinder - obwohl Omikron gerade in Südafrika die höhere Anfälligkeit dieser aufzeigt.
Sick children in South Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSfPK-amgKw
Ntsakisi Maluleke, public health specialist Gauteng province
https://english.alarabiya.net/coronavirus/2021/12/04/South-African-official-says-number-of-children-sick-with-COVID-not-cause-for-panic
Zitat: Ntsakisi Maluleke, a public health specialist in the Gauteng province that includes Tshwane and the biggest city Johannesburg, said that out of the 1,511 COVID-positive patients in hospitals in the province 113 were under 9 years old, a greater proportion than during previous waves of infection.
“We are comforted by clinicians’ reports that the children have mild disease,” she told Reuters in an interview, adding health officials and scientists were investigating what was driving the increased admissions in younger ages and were hoping to provide more clarity in the coming two weeks.
Since only a small percentage of South Africa’s positive COVID-19 tests are sent for genomic sequencing, officials do not yet know which variants the children admitted to hospital have been infected with.
Maluleke said healthcare workers could be acting out of an abundance of caution. “They would rather have a child under care for a day or two than having a child at home and complicating, ... but we really need to wait for the evidence,” she said.
Sprich: Die Kinder werden nach "better save than sorry" zur Beobachtung ins Spital eingewiesen und haben milde Symptome.