5 year old with underlying conditions has died.

[MynameisJune]

BBC reporting a 5 year old has died of coronavirus. Is this the first in the world? I thought no one under 10 had passed away.

That's so sad. I think the figure for deaths under 10 was very low -0.02? - but not zero. So tragic.

MynameisJune no that was in China. There have been at least 2 babies who have died, one in the US and I think one in Spain.

Pretty sure a 6 week old baby died somewhere in the US

That's awful. Poor family

Heartbreaking isn’t it. I just hope they had their parents with them and weren’t alone.

Its incredibly sad for the family but then its sad for any family to lose a child whatever age they are. pre-existing conditions are the reason why we are all self isolating. I believe that this is the case with this child. I am no more shocked at a 5 year old dying than a 95 year old tbh. the virus doesnt care. it picks off the weak.

I didn’t realise babies had died elsewhere. I’ve got a 4 year old and a 10 month old. We are taking the lockdown seriously and other than a walk they haven’t been anywhere for weeks, but DH is a key worker. I’ve only really kept it together because I thought kids were relatively safe.

China lied about their figures so much that we can’t rely on their data at all. The figures for deaths in under ten year olds are still very very low though.

Kids are still relatively safe.

Kids still are relatively safe. Unfortunately, children sometimes die of health conditions. Some children die of the flu. Some children die of chicken pox. Many die of Malaria in other countries. The death rate of children is still very very low.

My daughter is currently in hospital after having a seizure this morning. She has underlying health conditions but a normal life expectancy. I'm very concerned about her acquiring CV whilst in hospital but she has to be here and the staff have been brilliant.

@MynameisJune please try not to worry. Statistically children are very safe. Keep taking things seriously, you're all going to be ok xx

It's terribly sad Even if the child did have a very significant underlying health condition and a limited life-expectancy (which might not be the case) it is still tragic that they died from the virus.

I don't think that's true blue25. I don't think my DD is at anymore risk on her ward than I would be in the supermarket.

Where we are, no staff are moving between wards with confirmed or suspected cases of coronavirus neither are patients. There are isolation corridors between wards and our part of the hospital is eerily quiet because so few people are coming in for normal run of the mill statement. There are about 3 children in the paediatric ward and 30+ beds which were full when we were here in October.

I'm grateful to be on the ward with my DD though and hope the poor little 5 year old had someone close too.

@blue25. Totally unnecessary & heartless. Seriously - just no need!!

Incredibly sad for the family of the 5yo & every other family who have already lost loved ones 🌷

@zampa I’m glad you & DD are being well looked after & feel well
Protected. - hope you’re home soon 🌷

If a child ends up in hospital at the moment, it’s very likely they will get Covid-19

Not true and what an awful thing to say.

Poor child and family. That is so young.

@Zampa I hope you and your DD are as well as you can be and home soon. I know we are lucky to all be healthy.

I've only really kept it together because I thought kids were relatively safe.

They are relatively safe. One child died today out of 708 deaths in the UK. A small handful of babies and young children have been reported to have died so far out of >60,000 deaths worldwide and a world population of 7.8bn. The media flogs the absolute guts out of stories about the deaths of babies and children because they're always more newsworthy, and I suspect possibly also they may have been encouraged to do so to frighten a section of the populace into behaving itself that might otherwise have taken liberties- thus achieving the target of reducing transmission.

Once the peak has passed and some transmission amongst the less vulnerable becomes an acceptable cost of getting the economy going, or even desirable for the purposes of herd immunity, I expect the deaths of children and young adults (bar young NHS staff) will not be so prominently reported.

My children are the same age as yours and I'm doing the same as you re: prevention but I worry about CV less than I worry about choking or drowning or whatever.

Yes they may be relatively safe, but if you are a parent of a child with an underlying condition that really is not comfort. Because it does not matter if only a handful of very young children die if it is your child.

some transmission amongst the less vulnerable becomes an acceptable cost of getting the economy going, or even desirable for the purposes of herd immunity

You do know what you have said here on a thread about a vulnerable child who died? That basically deaths are an acceptable cost of getting the economy going again. Bloody hell that is one of the worst things I have ever seen on MN.

Conversely I don’t really worry about drowning or choking and I know logically it’s still a really small chance that they’ll get poorly with CV. Just hits too close to home some days.

*I realise the above probably makes me sound horrible, which I'm not really. I do think children dying is particularly sad (if I died now, well at least I've had a decent "turn" playing in the world- a little child never really got much of a go and it's not fair)

They are still relatively safe. Daily Mail has the figures for the deaths so far

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8187201/Only-THREE-Englands-3-302-coronavirus-deaths-far-aged-20.html

Its still horribly sad and awful as any child death is