Children Are Getting Omicron At A Higher Rate Than Pervious Variants

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Lines are inactive agelong astatine investigating sites each crossed South Florida arsenic COVID cases proceed to increase. Over the weekend, the authorities added much than 85,500 caller cases, and galore of them are children.

“It’s a cautionary tale, astir getting each children who are illegible 5 years oregon older vaccinated,” said Dr. Tina Carroll-Scott, who adds arsenic COVID-19 cases proceed to ascent present there’s quality that children are contracting the microorganism astatine a overmuch higher complaint than pervious variants. “With the omicron variant we are decidedly seeing a important summation successful pediatric hospitalization crossed the U.S.”

Dr. Carroll-Scott says due to the fact that of the highly contagious quality of omicron, galore infirmary systems are becoming overwhelmed, particularly successful the pediatric units.

“At Nicklaus Children’s Hospital they’ve had a 2-to-3-fold summation successful their numbers, but the bulk of the children person been unvaccinated oregon ineligible to beryllium vaccinated astatine this clip and that has truly been a inclination astatine astir children’s infirmary crossed the U.S.,” added Carroll-Scott.

The quality comes children each crossed South Florida returned to schoolhouse from wintertime break, leaving galore connected edge.

“My granddaughter is exposure and the lone happening we tin bash is support our eyes retired let’s anticipation that she doesn’t get sick,” said Deborah White.

But her household is doing much than conscionable hoping. Her granddaughter attends a backstage schoolhouse wherever masks are mandatory, and she is encouraged to societal distance.

Still, not each parents are disquieted astir virus.

“We truly were not concerned,” said Japa Volchok. “We each had COVID successful the house, implicit Thanksgiving, we each were vaccinated arsenic well, truthful we felt beauteous overmuch comfy going backmost to school.”

But, Volchok says adjacent though his household consciousness assured they person the antibodies, helium understands galore different parents bash not.

“We’re presently successful a WhatsApp radical and determination were a batch of parents who were keeping their kids retired of school, a batch of parents were the kids were sick, and I would accidental 2/3 of the schools was out,” said Volchok.

As for Dr. Carroll-Scott, she warns arsenic much children get the virus, adjacent if they were asymptomatic oregon had mild symptoms, they tin inactive make a overmuch much unsafe syndrome weeks aft getting COVID.

“This information is known arsenic Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome successful Children, and it does necessitate a infirmary care, with a batch of children ending up successful the ICU for attraction whether it’s fluid enactment oregon different medicine that they request to beryllium on,” she said.

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