The pandemic is affecting children more seriously than many people would assume.
Surviving the pandemic seems to be easier for those who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus. They can somewhat get back to a sense of normality without the numerous restrictions. Others are looking at the situation from another perspective, thinking not only about their freedom but also about the protection and safety of others. There are people, however, who are anti-vax or simply wait for another vaccine to be available, such as Novavax. But there is one demographic that is not often mentioned in the discussions about the pandemic, a demographic that many people thought were protected against the virus.
While there is a misinformation that children do not get infected with the virus, the truth is far from it. Many children with Covid-19 were taken to intensive care and put on ventilators. There were 100 children with Covid-19 in intensive care during the third wave of the pandemic. Many of these young patients are under the age of 10. If they survive and recover, they will be protected against the virus for only half a year.
Fifty children with Covid-19 were taken to the Heim Pal Children’s Hospital since January. The chief medical officer of the hospital told RTL that even healthy children can get the virus and badly suffer from the consequences.
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Currently, Pfizer is the only vaccine that can be administered to children. Portfolio writes that 69,000 doses of the vaccine suitable for children aged between 5 and 11 have arrived to Hungary. One hundred cars started delivering the vaccines at 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
The first doses arrived at the Heim Pál Children’s Hospital in Budapest. The hospital functions as a logistic center. They received 600 vaccines, out of which 342 would be taken to Semmelweis University, Dél-pesti Centrumkórház (South Pest Central Hospital), and Szent János Hospital. The vaccines that arrived in Budapest are sufficient for 36,000 children.
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There are too many informative voids in this article. “Many” is meaningless. The only number provided (100) seems out of context as well. What are the their ages and general state of health prior to the infection? Is the figure 100 representative enough out of an entire population of Hungarian kids to come up with the attention grabbing headline of “Tragic! Many children with Covid-19 are in intensive care”?
Why not give the percentage of kids that die? For adults it’s 0.15%, kids even lower …
Dear Nelson Taylor, thank you for your feedback. You are right that ‘tragic’ may not have been the right choice of word given the relatively low numbers, however, we find each case involving children saddening enough.
Unfortunately, there are little data available on statistics as we have written in one of our previous articles: https://dailynewshungary.com/do-hungarian-authorities-hide-the-most-crucial-covid-data/
Nevertheless, we always value our readers’ opinions and we are glad that you have shared this with us.
You want to know what is TRAGIC … The most tragic of all this is for the first time in human history we are making our children pay an exceptionally high price to keep the unhealthy adults who are too afraid to live, alive for a while longer. For the first time we are requesting that healthy young individuals take a solution to a problem they do not have. It is beyond comprehension that humanity has degraded itself to so low a level.
I second what Nelson Taylor Sol has said. I suspect many of these children had some comorbidity, such as asthma or diabetes or autoimmune disorder or some congenital defect. And as you say, there will also be some “perfectly healthy” children who, for whatever reason (genetics?), will get sick.
Give them ivermectin.