A research team from Japan’s Autonomous Medical University showed that among the sixth wave of the new crown epidemic in Japan, the proportion of children with moderate to severe symptoms is higher than the previous waves of the epidemic. Experts call on children to actively get vaccinated to prevent severe illness after infection.
According to Kyodo News on November 2, the research team analyzed 76 pediatric patients who were admitted to the Affiliated Hospital of the Autonomous Medical University due to infection with the new coronavirus from April 2020 to September 2022. Only 5 of the 76 children have completed the COVID-19 vaccination.
statistics show that among the 63 children hospitalized during the sixth to seventh wave of the epidemic this year, 23 were judged to be moderate to severe symptoms. They need oxygen or have acute encephalopathy caused by infection, accounts for 36.5%; , among the 13 children hospitalized before, only 1 person had similar symptoms, accounts for 7.7%.
survey found that the incidence of spasm in the children hospitalized during the sixth wave to the seventh wave of the epidemic was also higher, and the severity of the symptoms of the children admitted to the hospital was not significantly related to whether there was an underlying disease. At the same time, 61.5% of the children hospitalized in the fifth wave and the previous ones did not need treatment, while this proportion of the children hospitalized in the sixth wave to the seventh wave of the epidemic decreased to 12.7%.
Researchers believe that after the sixth wave of the epidemic, the Omickron strain became the main epidemic strain, resulting in a surge in the number of infections, and the occurrence of severe symptoms is relatively concentrated. This may be one of the factors that lead to an increase in the proportion of moderate to severe symptoms in hospitalized new coronary children.
Faced with the possible epidemic of COVID-19 and influenza that may appear this winter, experts call for vaccination with two vaccines: COVID-19 and influenza. Japan began vaccinating infants and young children aged 6 months to 4 years old from late October with the new crown vaccine . The Japanese Pediatric Association said on November 2 that it would recommend all children to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The latest epidemic data of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan shows that as of 0:00 on the 2nd, Japan had 70,396 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 within 24 hours, with a total of 22432,840 confirmed cases; 70 new deaths, with a total of 46,781 deaths. The average daily increase in confirmed cases in the 7-day period was 46,466, about 1.3 times that of a week ago.
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