COVID-19 Will Become a Childhood Disease? Dr. Grzesiowski: There are such hypotheses

– There are some hypotheses that COVID-19 will become mainly a childhood disease with time – said Dr. Paweł Grzesiowski in TOK FM. Therefore – according to the doctor – vaccination against this disease should be entered in the calendar of compulsory vaccinations.

1. Coronavirus has long been believed to bypass children, and if they have COVID-19 they have it asymptomatically or very mildly
2. As the expert explained the Delta variant, there are also severe cases of COVID-19 among children, and 1 in 1000 children goes to the hospital due to severe course
3. He explained that adults who are healed have had COVID-19 once – will be protected for a long time. So who remains available to the virus? Mainly children and unvaccinated adults – said Dr. Grzesiowski on TOK FM. 
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During the first and second coronavirus waves, most children had no symptoms. With time, infections began to spread, and doctors drew attention to the dangerous PIMS, i.e. pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 – a multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children after COVID-19. Experts have also been pointing out for a long time that the virus, which needs the human body to survive, will attack younger and healthier people. Especially that the vaccination process in most countries starts with the oldest and the most ill.

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The Delta variant of the coronavirus is responsible for the severe course of illness among children

– It was even said that the virus does not attack children, that they are bypassed by the virus, that they are immune. Due to the fact that they have a lot of colds in the first years of their lives, they manage this virus very well

– said in TOK FM Dr. Paweł Grzesiowski, pediatrician, immunologist and expert of the Supreme Medical Council for the fight against COVID-19.

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The doctor explained that this was only true until the Delta Coronavirus variant emerged. According to the expert, some of the diseases in children are severe (1 in 1000 children are hospitalized because of the severe course of the COVID-19 virus).

Coronavirus Will Become A Childhood Disease?

As Dr. Paweł Grzesiowski stated, the problem today is that vaccines are available only to children from 12 years of age.

Even if we decide to vaccinate all children, we will vaccinate only some of them – he emphasized. There are some hypotheses that COVID-19 will become mainly a childhood disease over time. Like other cytomegaloviruses, RSV, mononucleosis, he continued. He explained that adults who are healed have had COVID-19 once – they will be protected for a long time. – So who remains available to the virus? Mostly children and unvaccinated adults

– said Dr. Grzesiowski in TOK FM.

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According to the expert opinion, the vaccine will in the future be available to children over six months. In this case, Dr. Paweł Grzesiowski would suggest introducing coronavirus vaccinations into the mandatory vaccination calendar.

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