one in 100 kids get MIS-C / PIMS after Covid infection???
"Harvard University on paediatric Covid-19 has found about 1 percent of children are developing a related disease called multiple inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)"
Thread A detailed 🧵 on the alarming rise in cases of acute liver failure in healthy children:
Media + scientific bodies have placed undue emphasis on Adenovirus infection as the leading culprit in such cases of liver failure.
Let us see if this claim holds water [short answer: No!]
COVID-19 Associated Hepatitis in Children (CAH-C) during the second wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Central India: Is it a complication or transient phenomenon.
75% of US children have now had COVID, up from 44%, due to omicron A third of all US children were newly infected with COVID during omicron wave.
Thread 1/ Covid: Study from India shows 'sudden rise' in children with Hepatitis after 'mild' and asymptomatic infections as UKHSA claims that the sudden rise in Hep in kids in the UK is due to a common cold virus. Kids developed Hep after mild and asymptomatic infections.
UWindsor researchers discover children’s mental health worsens when COVID-19 cases surge “Our findings suggest that measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, such as masks and vaccines, may be substantially beneficial to children’s mental health both now and in the future.”
Health Ministry reports 12 cases of mysterious liver disease in children Hepatitis, or liver inflammation, has popped up in young patients in at least seven countries, but the usual viral culprits have not been present
Tillie caught Covid back in December 2020 and is now living with long Covid. She now wants to support other families in a similar situation. @tilliesjourney
Read more on long Covid...https://bbc.in/3tMuc5D
#covid #longcovid #longcovidkids
"Children were an important source of spread. The findings suggest that children are an important driver of the COVID-19 pandemic; this should inform public health policy."
Data was collected between September 2020 and March 2021
Thread 1/ Child Covid: big multi-hospital study shows nearly 1 in 100 kids admitted had a stroke, 1 in 90 has a heart attack and 1 in 12 has a seizure: disturbing neurological manifestations found in children—nearly 1 in 2 went to ICU—1 in 100 died & this is PRE-OMICRON.
“Over the past seven days, 16,296 schoolchildren across WA tested positive for COVID, including 8793 from private schools and 7503 at government schools. Another 1535 teachers caught the virus in the past week, with outbreaks detected in 918 schools — 660 public and 258 private.”
“Children are making up a significant portion of hospitalisations. “Perth Children’s Hospital on a busy day are seeing 30 children a day with COVID.”
All three sources of pediatric COVID death information agree on this:
The rate at which children die per day from COVID has tripled since the US moved away from hybrid/online schooling and towards mandatory in-person schooling
This hurt the less affluent and minorities the most
1 in 4 symptomatic children get long COVID, a new study finds. March 2022
Thread A new preprint study shows a quarter of children and teens who contract COVID-19 and have symptoms develop lingering problems, such as fatigue, sleep disorders, breathing issues, heart issues, and gastrointestinal issues. (@TheMethodistHospital)
COVID-19 and Pediatric Asthma: What Patients and Parents Need to Know Image
Thread MISINFO: 🇨🇦 children's mental health is declining due to pandemic measures🚫
✅TRUTH: when we ask kids how they're doing, most tell us "the same or better✅
🚫MISINFO: more 🇨🇦 kids were hospitalized for self harm/overdose🚫
✅TRUTH: both dropped for kids✅
"The spread amongst children does have an impact on others.”
Health Secretary Matt Hancock addresses the effect of the virus on children and explains that there are “plenty of good reasons” to vaccinate young people. June 2021
Thread UK, OMICRON: Peadicatric ICU shows child surge as Omicron hits: data has been ignored by SAGE:
Thread Todays IDK who needs to hear this:
Children under age 5 (ie those both ineligible for vaccinations, and most unable to wear a well fitted mask) have a higher death rate than older kids from the virus. They account for 15% of pediatric Covid cases but 35% of pediatric deaths.
Thread ONS data on long COVID out today very concerning -persistent symptoms affecting daily life affect a significant proportion of primary & 2ndary school age children -clear impact on children's wellbeing 🧵
