Coronavirus variant omicron does not cause many times more deaths in children than previous variants, as warned by prominent Slovak epidemiologist working in the Czech Republic Rastislav Maďar, the Novinky.cz portal said on Friday.
The Czech news portal writes that at his request, data analysts from the South African National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) prepared an analysis that mapped mortality from COVID-19 by age. )
“I ask the government to consider stronger anti-epidemic measures today. Information on the deaths of 3.5 times more children in South Africa (in other previous waves) cannot be taken lightly , “ wrote on Twitter on December 22.
Please, to consider more stringent anti-epidemic measures today. We cannot take lightly the information about the deaths of 3.5 times more children in South Africa than in other previous waves. However, the rapid release of omicron into the population without major obstacles is also undesirable for other reasons. https://t.co/9DnPSwoLGD
– Rasti Madar (@RastiMadar) December 22, 2021
The epidemiologist shared a contribution by renowned American scientist Yaneer Bar-Yam, who specializes in pandemic analyzes. However, it was not clear what the claim for the 3.5 times greater danger of omicron to children was based on.
As with other variants
The news therefore turned to the South African NICD, which manages DATCOV code statistics. Data manager Richard Welch said he did not find such information correct, and promised that his team would include age-related deaths in the latest report this year.
An analysis on 25 December shows that during the fourth wave, South Africa with a covid 58 children (under the age of 19). Since the beginning of the pandemic, 710 have died, representing 0.7 percent of the 96,122 deaths associated with covid.
Given that the same percentage for children was reported by the NICD in early December,
According to the News, Yaneer Bar-Yam and Rastislav Maďar thus apparently disseminated information that they had insufficiently verified in advance. The Hungarian wrote to the News on Tuesday that his contribution wanted to warn against underestimating the omicron.
Increase in children’s hospitalizations in New York
“Please note that the data may change at any time, as hospitals may only reload data, which means that a comparison of this aggregate data does not necessarily imply that the death occurred in a given week, but may be older. deaths reported this week, “ wrote Welch to the News.
Coronavirus generally endangers children at least
The portal further writes that many states in the USA recorded in December. an increase in the number of children’s hospitalizations by up to 50 percent. The most dramatic increase was reported by New York, where there were 68 children in hospitals last week, a fourfold jump from the previous two weeks
The cause is difficult to determine unambiguously. The data influence how the virus is spreading at a given place at a given place or how society as a whole is vaccinated or overwhelmed in individual age categories as well.
“I think that it is important to say that the severity of the disease has dropped significantly and the risk of serious illness appears to be lower, “ The New York Times quoted researcher David Rubin of the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia.
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