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Pediatric hospitalizations up under Omicron, but it's not more severe

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But "even if you have a small percentage of kids that would have severe disease, a small percentage of a large number is a large number," Henry Bernstein, a pediatrician at Northwell Health hospital system in New York told AFP.

This is an important factor, fortunately Omicron is behaving as a less dangerous infection also in children, but that is still a very different matter from it being "just a cold" so proper care should still be taken to avoid putting children at unnecessary risk.

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Anthony Fauci told reporters last week that "many children are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID."

In other words, since hospitals are routinely COVID testing everyone admitted, they are picking up coincidental coronavirus infections.

This honesty is refreshing. But instead of "but it's not more severe", the title should say "but it's less severe".

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This honesty is refreshing. But instead of "but it's not more severe", the title should say "but it's less severe".

Those are two very different things, the evidence until now can let scientist conclude with a good degree of certainty it is not more severe, not that it is less.

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The kids rate of mortality is fairly low, but looking at some of the data shows a lot of missing/unknown for a positive test and also a large amount of unknown if there are underlying conditions:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7003e1.htm

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/susan-jones/cdc-94-children-ages-5-11-have-died-covid-000012-all-covid-deaths

And in other COVID news, the agreement between Japan and the military is now restricting personnel to their bases. It has made national news in the US.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/japan-pm-deal-reached-us-military-curbs-halt-82160525

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Wick's pencilJan. 9  09:23 am JST

Anthony Fauci told reporters last week that "many children are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID."

In other words, since hospitals are routinely COVID testing everyone admitted, they are picking up coincidental coronavirus infections.

This honesty is refreshing. But instead of "but it's not more severe", the title should say "but it's less severe".

I've had a couple of friends who got sick along with their entire families over the holidays. Everyone I know who's survived CoVid-19 has said the same, it's the most horrible feeling in the world. They all say 'you don't wanna get it' It doesn't matter if it's the original version, delta, omicron, or the rumored 'idris' if it exists.

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