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Children can get seriously ill from C-19

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Lifeisabeach09 · 23/03/2020 00:23

Sorry to upset anyone but I wanted to highlight that this virus can seriously affect children.

A 12 year old with NO underlying conditions is on a ventilator in the US.

edition.cnn.com/2020/03/22/us/georgia-coronavirus-girl-hospitalized/index.html

However, kids becoming seriously ill with the virus is still very uncommon.

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GrumpyHoonMain · 23/03/2020 00:37

In China a 10 month old with a bowel blockage that shouldn’t have caused complications with the virus also died. This is a respiratory virus and if treatment is delayed you can get pneumonia like symptoms and sepsis just like other similar viruses

Moomin8 · 23/03/2020 01:04

I don't think that threads like this are helpful 😐

Snowflakes1122 · 23/03/2020 01:06

And yet some parents continue to allow their kids out to play, or take them to busy parks with other stupid parents!

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Lifeisabeach09 · 23/03/2020 01:15

I must have admit @Moomin8, I was really torn about posting and sharing the link.
But, as much as we need reassurance as parents that our kids won't contract this illness seriously, we also need to know the severity of what's going on so that we can keep our kids safe.

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littlebitwooway · 23/03/2020 01:59

No Diagnosed health conditions.

Couchbettato · 23/03/2020 02:10

@Moomin8 threads like this are scary but there are still people out there that think children are fine because they're less likely to have complications.

But it's important to remember that even though it's less likely you don't know which kid is gonna cheque that lottery ticket, and to the families it affects, it flips their world upside down.

I don't think threads help, but government transparency about it to those with lesser understanding about the subject needs to be had

Hazelnutlatteplease · 23/03/2020 02:14

We have been sold a massive lie. Closed cases are hovering at 10% death rate. Chinese doctors were saying 10% but widescale testing bought it down.

Death rate will be high in uk because of availability of idu beds. A lot of people will die, healthy or otherwise.

ChickLitLover · 23/03/2020 02:23

I don't think that threads like this are helpful

I think they are. I think parents may read about this case and stop thinking it’s ok to let their children play out with other kids in their road, go to the park, have play dates etc. I think parents feel safe because we’ve been told that kids are only affected mildly. I don’t think anyone is safe and can’t believe people are putting their kids in unnecessary contact with others. If this stops that happening, then it’s very helpful, for the whole of society.

Samcarpy92 · 23/03/2020 06:17

One child out of the thousands who’s come into contact covid 19.... Why even post this?

TeddyIsaHe · 23/03/2020 06:18

Threads like this are helpful - if the only way idiots are going to take social distancing or isolation seriously is to scare them into it, then I’m all for it.

STAY AT HOME. It’s not hard.

DrSheldonCooperPHD · 23/03/2020 06:20

Threads like this are extremely helpful when we still have 1000s who clearly think they / their children are exempt and are still strolling round like it's all fine.

nellodee · 23/03/2020 06:20

Small percentages over large populations become large numbers. One in a thousand is two children from my school. Two too many, if they can be prevented.

WhereverIMayRoam · 23/03/2020 06:25

I think it’s important that parents realise children are at risk from this virus. Yes, it’s a lower risk for them but it’s not NO risk which I have seen said by plenty of MNers. I’ve even had friends repeatedly state that “children can’t get it” ffs! They can and will get it. Some of them will be seriously ill and some may even die.

People haven’t been distancing despite the risk to the elderly and vulnerable, maybe they’ll do it for their children.

CarlottaValdez · 23/03/2020 06:29

One in a thousand is two children from my school. Two too many, if they can be prevented.

Are you suggesting that 2 in a thousand children will die? What’s your basis for this? That’s not what we’re seeing in China or anywhere else.

wecandothispeeps · 23/03/2020 06:30

It is worth noting that the mortality rate is much higher than we were originally told, it is over 8% in Italy, and closer to 10% in China (although it is very hard to even estimate in China, as so many people died at home) Most were over 65, but not all.

None of us can be sure how our body will react to a new virus, young or otherwise. We can stop this by staying at home, keeping our children at home and not breaking this commitment however hard it may be (and it will be hard, we are on day 10)

Threads like this are frightening, but they serve a purpose. Stay at home, keep your children safe.

crazydiamond222 · 23/03/2020 06:32

People also need to realise that the nhs dealing with covid 19 will mean that there is very limited resource to focus on all the other illnesses or accidents a child may encounter. It is likely the indirect deaths from this are greater than those directly from covid 19 in children.

effingterrified · 23/03/2020 06:35

Carlotta, I think that the death rate is 0.2% for that age group on WHO charts currently, which is 2 in 1000.

Solasum · 23/03/2020 06:41

@wecandothispeeps. The mortality rate is NOT 10%. Most people who get the virus never get near a hospital, many never know they have it at all. The rate is 10% of the small proportion of the population that end up having to be admitted to hospital. Still a big number, but not 10% of the population by any means

MangoFeverDream · 23/03/2020 06:59

No Diagnosed health conditions

That’s important to keep in mind. That 20-year-old Spanish guy was diagnosed with leukemia shortly after testing positive for COVID-19. Horrible, and this little girl may have some undiagnosed illness too. I hope for her sake she does not.

ImfinallyaMummy · 23/03/2020 07:00

Definitely not helpful posting this.

We are all aware it's incredibly dangerous and people should be staying at home regardless.

No need to scare the shit out of us even more.

CarlottaValdez · 23/03/2020 07:01

Carlotta, I think that the death rate is 0.2% for that age group on WHO charts currently, which is 2 in 1000.

Is that assuming a 100% rate of infection across the population?

BecauseReasons · 23/03/2020 07:02

0.2% of 10-19 year olds with it die. Given the massive numbers of infected involved, it stands to reason that we are going to see people in that age bracket die.

DMJ6789 · 23/03/2020 07:03

The mortality rates are only that high on confirmed cases (and it’s not they high in China). The medical consensus is that they think the mortality rate will be around 1% when it is all over due to the number of people who have not been tested and not been near a hospital. The only was of knowing for sure is by testing the whole nation. I’m not sure how they would get the tests out though.

cinammonbuns · 23/03/2020 07:03

There is genuinely no point in posting this other than to scare people. We all know the statistics for death rate based on ages. The overwhelming majority of children will not get any serious symptoms or outcomes.

JoJothesquirrel · 23/03/2020 07:04

It’s easy to get to 30, maybe even 40 without knowing about underlying health conditions. Way to much emphasis on people thinking they know the structure of their heart.
Anyone already scared won’t be changed by this threat. But someone being the line that it’s ‘just’ the over 70’s might get a reality check.

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