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after actually reading the article:
While cases among children are growing at an alarming rate, the delta variant is not confirmed to be more dangerous in children than adults, Laham and other pediatric infectious disease experts nationwide told NBC News.
“It’s too early to tell,” Bernhard Wiedermann, an infectious diseases specialist at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. told NBC News. “It’s going to take time and a collection of data from multiple sites to know” if delta is more virulent in kids than previous strains of the virus.
this is clickbait, and absolutely disgusting clickbait that preys on parents’ fears for the children, at that. the increases in sick kids is because of an overall increase in cases, not an increase in sick kids per case, which would indicate a more deadly variant than the original. the Hill is such fucking trash.
I wonder what the rate of long term neurological impact is going to be, given long covid in adults can be pretty brutal even if they’re not hospitalised
Could it aslo just be downplaying by the press though
Idk why people think the press always downplays things but it is kind of the opposite, the press really really likes doing the opposite of downplaying because it causes more panic reads.
that is anecdotal and based on kids who come into the hospital. i bet there are WAY more infected kids than that. that doctor is only seeing the ones who are the sickest. 10% of the ones who come into the hospital need to be hospitalized makes sense, because that’s why they are there. i don’t think it’s a good indicator of whether the new variant is any more deadly than the previous strains.
