Delta variant causes symptomatic course of infection in children more often than other COVID-19 mutations. That is why it is so important to vaccinate adults and children over 12 years of age. The vaccine is still being researched into younger children.
— Parents should get vaccinated themselves if they want to protect their children. We should use cocoon vaccination, i.e. administer the preparation to people around the child, we have no influence on the fact that the vaccine cannot be administered to people who are under 12 years of age. We are waiting – said in an interview with RMF FM, a pediatric pulmonologist, doctor Joanna Lange from the Medical University of Warsaw.
- Most children with COVID-19 do not have the usual symptoms
The cocoon method is where everyone around the person who cannot be vaccinated is vaccinated. Such a method was proposed by specialists in the case of people who, for various medical reasons, cannot be vaccinated and, for example, the elderly whose family was unable to convince them to vaccinate. Now doctors recommend using the cocoon method on children. If grandparents, parents, older siblings, friends and their older children are vaccinated, the younger child will be less likely to be infected.
Delta in children – symptoms
The most common symptoms occurring in children infected with the Delta mutation are mentioned headache, sore throat, and stomach problems, which distinguishes the Delta variant from earlier mutations. The course of COVID-19 disease in children sometimes resembles stomach flu or rotavirus infection.
It is worth emphasizing that most of the current SARS-CoV-2 infections in the world are infections with the Delta mutation. Almost all new cases in the UK, 90 percent. in Israel, 80 percent in Spain, more than half of all new infections in the US are from this mutation. In Poland, infection with the Delta mutation was confirmed in 185 people, which is 47%. all infections.
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