Saturday, 4 September 2021

PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (304): children and adolescents, delta and mu variants, WHO

COVID-19 -- Worldwide/Unknown
Summary
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What is already known about this topic?
COVID-19 can cause severe illness in children and adolescents.
What is added by this report?
Weekly COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates among children and adolescents rose nearly 5-fold during late June to mid-August 2021, coinciding with increased circulation of the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 delta variant. The proportions of hospitalized children and adolescents with severe disease were similar before and during the

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8645927&promed&0

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