Current Events > India's second wave of COVID is impacting children more severely.

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-second-wave-kids-more-symptomatic-101617821189124.html

Doctors treating Covid-19 patients have marked a distinct trend during the ongoing second wave of the pandemic -- the virus now appears to be impacting children more severely. Relatively unaffected during the first wave, children and adolescents are now showing more obvious symptoms such as prolonged fever and gastroenteritis, the doctors said. During the first wave, most children remained asymptomatic, and a large number of them went untested because of that, said paediatrician Dr. Bakul Parekh. We tested children only when someone in the family had a history of Covid-19. A small number of children did have mild symptoms, which lasted only for a day or two. Over the last fortnight, Parekh, who runs a childrens hospital in Ghatkopar, has admitted six children between 1 and 7 years old to the hospital -- three with severe gastrointestinal infections and fever, and others with breathlessness and fever. Those with gastrointestinal infections had to be put on intravenous fluids. The patients who were breathless required steroids and oxygen support, said Parekh.

During the first wave, Parekh does not recall referring even a single child who needed hospitalisation.He links new mutations with the increased impact on children. The available medical literature shows that the double mutation found in Maharashtra (now called B1.617) can be one of the reasons behind it, he said. In Mumbai, schools have remained closed since March 2020, but children are seen playing outdoors within housing society premises, as well as stepping out with elders. This is increasing the risk of carrying the infection as well as getting infected, experts said. Children are definitely more symptomatic now than what we saw in the first wave, said Dr. Tanu Singhal, a paediatrician and infectious disease specialist at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. The severity of their illness has gone up, she said. According to Singhal, most of her patients are from the upper-middle class, who perhaps did not go out at all last year.

Hopefully that new variant doesn't come to the US. We aren't even vaccinating kids under 12 yet.

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india fighting hard

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Dark_SilverX posted...

india fighting hard

Yea. Out of sight and out of mind to many. Unfortunate given it spreading so much over there could create a variant immune to the vaccines or like OP something that hospitalizes or kills children.

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https://youtu.be/gn_fde3bqdU

they literally have clouds ontop of their water out there. what is really going on in India.

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wait until the next wave with state-funded modifications.

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They did it to themselves, but damn thats a bit sad

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Is India still blaming America for their covid problem?

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