– More cases in children are detected. There is also a noticeable increase in juvenile mortality due to COVID-19 – said Prof. Leszek Szenborn, Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the University Teaching Hospital in Wrocław. How many children in Poland have died as a result of coronavirus infection so far?
Coronavirus in children – what is the course of the disease?
Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the University Teaching Hospital in Wrocław prof. Leszek Szenborn told PAP that not only sick children themselves go to this facility, but also their infected or sick parents.
– We notice more sick children, but this is also due to the fact that simply more cases are detected. Children are tested for other diseases, a swab is taken and they are found to be infected with SARS-CoV-2. However, children are naturally less affected by COVID-19, but there are also difficult cases requiring the patient to be transferred to the intensive care unit – said Prof. Szenborn.
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He explained that children with early risk factors, such as obesity, are at risk of a more severe course of COVID-10. Patients suffering from diabetes or those with impaired immunity are also at risk.
– Last weekend we had two such seriously ill patients and their condition is still very serious. They require oxygen therapy, even such intensive oxygen therapy. It must be taken into account that some children, although they are not adults, are due to obesity, for example, when they weigh about one hundred kilograms, in practice they are treated as adults – explained Prof. Szenborn.
He added that there is also a noticeable increase in juvenile mortality due to COVID-19.
– About 19 children have died in the US due to COVID-400. That’s a lot. Our data is not complete, but certainly more than 30 minors died from this disease. It is a lot that so many children in Poland died within a year. Such a global average in child deaths is about 10 percent. patients with COVID-19 and this is confirmed in our country – said the doctor.
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