Tag: childhood covid-19

COVID-19 in children 0-17 years old have low risk of death and hospitalization

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control studied 10 European Union member countries and evaluated the outcome of COVID-19 in children 0-17 years old. Their findings published in Eurosurveillance included 820,404 symptomatic pediatric cases and showed the following results: 1.2% were hospitalized 0.08% required intensive care 0.01% died. Those findings are similar to previous…

Discoverer of the omicron variant successfully treated a six-year-old COVID patient with the “worst symptoms”

Posted on by Jesse Santiano, M.D.

Dr. Angelique Coetzee of South Africa is credited with discovering the omicron variant among her patients. ABC Radio National interviewed Dr. Coetzee about the omicron cases that she has seen. She said most have mild symptoms like fever, fatigue, headaches, body aches, and nausea. No one showed symptoms commonly seen with the Delta variant: “No…