How many parents still have children in lockdown?

[Alex50]

Just wondering if your children are still only staying at home and only going out for walks, if so why? Will you send them back to school? Are you worried your children could be severely ill from the virus?

I'm not in lockdown at all! Kids back at nursery, I'm back at work, husband is a police officer. Went to a small party at the weekend with little social distancing. I eat out twice a week, I go shopping to town and go to supermarkets often. I have play dates at mine and have people over for dinner. There was 3 cases of confirmed COVID in my area last week. I'm cracking on.

[quote Alex50]The Lancet report was a European study

www.google.com/amp/s/medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-europe-wide-children-covid-predominately-mild.amp[/quote]
That study was about COVID in Children itself, not MIS-C syndrome, which often occurs after recovery from COVID.

It had a 0.69% fatality rate which to me is high. It did state that because of cases which had likely not been picked up by testing the true fatality rate would be 'significantly lower' . How significantly. Hopefully a lot.

It wasn't about MIS-C either. Deaths occuring from MIS-C will likely not be counted as COVID deaths because of the 28 day rule.

I keep looking for some really good news on this. Hoping.

@Namara I think it concerns us all but I really think you are worrying too much over it. A quick Google and there are loads of reliable sources on how rare it is

www.rcpch.ac.uk/resources/pims-covid-19-linked-syndrome-affecting-children-information-families#:~:text=Paediatric%20Multisystem%20Inflammatory%20Syndrome%20temporally,serious%20and%20even%20life-threatening.

The vast majority who get it recover as well.

It seems to disproportionately affect BAME children as well

We have pretty much been in lockdown until last week. Reason being is that we decided to form a bubble with my high risk parents. We stopped that last week because we wanted the kids to play (outside) with a few school friends before they go back to school. We’ve been working from home and we have a reasonable sized house/garden so it was easy for us to do.

[quote Jrobhatch29]@Namara I think it concerns us all but I really think you are worrying too much over it. A quick Google and there are loads of reliable sources on how rare it is

www.rcpch.ac.uk/resources/pims-covid-19-linked-syndrome-affecting-children-information-families#:~:text=Paediatric%20Multisystem%20Inflammatory%20Syndrome%20temporally,serious%20and%20even%20life-threatening.

The vast majority who get it recover as well.[/quote]
I just don't think it can be stated definitively that MIS-C is extremely rare yet, when there have been so very few confirmed cases of COVID itself in children in the country.

Up in Scotland until last week, we'd only had 161 confirmed COVID cases in age 5-14 in the whole pandemic !! We had a couple of children of this age bracket with the MIS-C syndrome. Hopefully there were so many untested cases that those figures are skewed by that.

Even in the whole of the UK there's not been many confirmed cases in children compared to other age groups.

I'm not saying lock up children - I'm not - I just think not enough data yet.

I keep looking for studies proving how rare it is. I really really hope it definitely is.

There was another post specifically on that and it was definitely BAME children who had it, makes me wonder if more protection for BAME children needed and disabled children in SN schools too. That is a concern. Less concerned about children not in those groups. But this issue worries me.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3914382-Let-s-stop-calling-it-Kawasaki-like-syndrome

Think it was this one, but there are others.

I think they are starting to see Mis C as being the result of contracting two illnesses close together, so Covid and something else. This really worries me as a similar thing happened to my DD last year and we spent two days being told she probably had Leukaemia (she didn't, thank God!)

I have one friend like this. Since March the only child interaction her toddler has had is when we've (ds and I) waved through the window. Literally no other children in all that time, not even from a distance. They live a 30 second walk from a great park that's always empty before 10am and they've never once been there since March either.