see url: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53932294
Reassuring to see such a report, but one of the main concerns is how
likely the children are to catch the virus and how likely adults,
teachers, school workers, parents, grandparents and the elderly are
likely to catch it from them because the consequences can be much worse...
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Parents should be "reassured" Covid-19 has not caused the deaths of any
otherwise healthy schoolchildren in the UK, researchers say.
Children's risk of needing hospital treatment for coronavirus is "tiny"
and critical care "even tinier", they say.
However, black children, those who are obese and very young babies have
a slightly higher risk.
The BMJ study looked at 651 children with coronavirus in hospitals in
England, Wales and Scotland.
It covers two-thirds of all children's admissions in the UK due to
Covid-19 between January and July and confirms what is already known
about the minimal effects of the virus on children.
A "strikingly low" 1% of these 651 children and young people - six in
total - had died in hospital with Covid-19 compared with 27% across all
other age groups, the study found.
Eighteen per cent of the children needed intensive care.
And the six who had died had had "profound" underlying health conditions
that had often been complex and themselves life-limiting.
Children with such conditions remained vulnerable to the virus and must
take precautions, the researchers said.
But for others, the risk was extremely low.
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