According to the health care experts in the country, children are at greater risk with the omicron variant as they possess low immune power and the omicron variant targets more people with low immune systems.
The Rise In Child Hospitalizations In The US Is Concerning
The Central Government has been taking various measures to safeguard the lives of the kids in the State. The Vaccine developers are manufacturing enough vaccinations to vaccinate the entire population of children in the nation.
The kids less than 5 years of age are not getting vaccinated and the pharma companies are conducting various clinical trials to analyze the results of vaccination on the kids between 2-4 years. Although the initial results from Pfizer were not in favor of the children as the vaccine failed to produce the required antibodies and hence the vaccine manufacturing firm has to make some amendments keeping in mind the previous analyses.
Now as per the statistics available, the hospitalization rate amongst Children across the United States has increased by nearly three times as compared to the hospitalizations in the last December. Medical experts are under a lot of stress due to the rising hospital admissions in the US. Positively, the number of children in the intensive care unit has not increased but the infection number is still climbing up due to the rise in the omicron cases.
The US Food and Drug Administration has already approved vaccines for kids between 5-11 years and also authorized the emergency use of vaccines for 12-15 years adolescents in the US keeping in mind the current scenario.
Earlier this month the emergency use of booster shots also got authorization from the FDA because of the tough questions being asked by the medical experts over the effectiveness of the two doses of vaccination.
The Covid infection is spreading at a high speed in young children. The medical experts and scientists assert that several factors are responsible for this surge. The kids are the carriers as well as the prime victim of Covid infection.
The Central government has partnered with the schools to offer counseling sessions to the children and parents and urge them to participate in the vaccination drive for the kids.
Recently it was also noted that out of the total hospital admission only one fully vaccinated child got in close contact with the Covid infection and this creates more concern amongst the healthcare officials in the country.
The pediatric doctors are also claiming that we are definitely seeing a positive impact of Covid vaccination on children above 5 years and it has given a good amount of boost to the immunity system. more than 90 percent of the kids that are hospitalized for Covid 19 infection are majorly unvaccinated with mild infections.
