Denis - The COVID info guy -Alarming pediatric hospital admissions linked to COVID-19 in England.
A total of 3,226,535 pediatric patients had initial SARS-CoV-2 infections during the study period (Between September 2021 and April 2022), 0.9% of whom required hospitalization. The median duration of hospitalization was two days, with 6% of COVID-19-related hospitalizations requiring admission to critical care units and 4.3% hospitalized due to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) who did not receive critical care. In total, 70 deaths were reported.
Among hospitalized individuals, 75% were not vaccinated, with an even higher proportion of 80% among individuals requiring high dependency unit (HDU) or Intensive care unit (ICU) care.
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