The current percentage among 0-5 year olds has never been higher compared to other age groups. A phenomenon that should not, however, be dramatized.
Infections in children are already showing an upward trend following the start of the school year. The increase is most marked in secondary education and the contrast with the previous quarter is significant.
With the high contagiousness of the Omicron variant, experts believe that this trend will strengthen in the coming weeks, and it is not the more flexible rules that came into force on Monday, which are likely to stop it, measure at the following which a class should not be quarantined following four infections (compared to two previously). “This will not prevent many classes from being quarantined, many infections are expected in children, more than last fall, and this problem will unfortunately not be resolved with the rules in place in schools” , points to virologist Steven Van Gucht. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, the number of hospitalizations among children and young people is increasing very rapidly, but it is important to remember that the risk of serious illness in young children remains low.
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