Emerging data suggest that kids who test positive for COVID during the Delta wave may be more than twice as likely to be hospitalized as they were with previous versions of the virus.
The combination of the two infections is hitting children’s hospitals hard, and it’s layered on top of the indirect effects of the pandemic, such as the increased population of kids and teens who need“It’s all these things happening at the same time,” says Mark Wietecha, CEO of the Children’s Hospital Association. “To have our hospitals this crowded in August is unusual.”
“We can’t easily recruit physicians and nurses from adult hospitals in any practical way to staff a kids’ hospital,” Wietecha said. That means children’s hospitals could quickly become overwhelmed, especially in areas where community transmission is high, vaccination rates are low, and parents are screaming about masks.
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