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Numbers suggest that Omicron triggers rise in British infants hospitalized in Covid | Coronavirus
The numbers suggest that the proportion of in-hospital infants in Covid-19 in the UK is increasing with the spread of Omicron, but researchers encouraged calm and most cases are very mild. It is pointed out that.
Covid-positive hospitalizations, whatever the cause, are expected to increase with increasing infections, but the latest figures suggest that there was a change in the proportion of infants in children infected with the coronavirus. increase.
Published by the Emergency Science Advisory Group (Sage) on Friday, based on a broadly representative subset of NHS hospitals, data from the Isaric / Co-CIN study showed that in previous Covid, about 30% of hospitalized children The virus was under 1 year old.
However, when Omicron spread rapidly across the country from mid-December to mid-January, the proportion was just over 42%, with children in the most disadvantaged areas most affected.
Calum Temple, a professor of child health and developmental medicine at the University of Liverpool, said infants generally experience very mild symptoms.