According to many large United Kingdom studies, children have a tremendously low risk of severe sickness, hospitalization, and death from coronavirus. During the initial twelve months of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as up to February 2021, twenty-five under-eighteen people died in the United Kingdom due to the virus infection.

During the same duration, the researchers concluded children have an extremely low risk of illness, hospitalization, and death from the disease, and while children with severe previous health conditions are at slightly greater risk, and it is much smaller than in adults. One of the researchers from Imperial College London, Dr. Elizabeth Whittaker, said that they observe very few seriously ill children.

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Professor Russell Viner, the senior researcher from University College London, said that he hoped the study would influence guidelines on childhood vaccination and their quarantining across the world, and one of the studies suggested the risks children face from interrupted schooling and social events may outweigh those from coronavirus.

Children are Less Likely to Contract with COVID-19 than Adults

The findings didn’t look at the effect of long coronavirus on children, which can cause devastating virus symptoms for several months or years after infection. Moreover, the researchers say these findings are the most inclusive on the effects of coronavirus in children globally, bolstering well-documented findings that children are less likely to contract with the virus and die from coronavirus than adults.

In several highly inoculated nations, such as Israel and the U.K., children and young people are now driving new waves of virus infection, leading several to estimate whether they have to extend vaccinations offered to adults to children. Moreover, the United States is one of some countries that does so, offering kids as young as twelve the opportunity to get the shot.

The studies looked at the statistics from the first year of COVID-19 and didn’t comprise the infectious new Delta variant. However, this variant is now the dominant strain of the virus in the United States, and children are among the most susceptible.

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