高齢者、基礎疾患者とそうでない人たちの隔離を

 

COVID and kids: How the omicron surge is impacting child hospitalizations, school safety

COVID-19 is surging across all age groups, but kids still fare better than adults. Here's what COVID-19 in children looks like.

Janie Haseman and Aleszu Bajak, USA TODAY

Published 8:30 PM JST Jan. 13, 2022 Updated 2:02 AM JST Jan. 14, 2022

“Although omicron has been found to cause milder disease, it's still infecting so many people, including children, that those kids with chronic or comorbid conditions are bound to get infected,” said Jennifer Bacani McKenney, a family physician and the Wilson County health officer in Fredonia, Kansas. “Then they are the ones who end up in the hospitals because of COVID or because COVID triggered them to have an exacerbation of their chronic condition.”

Out of the more than 840,000 people who have died of COVID-19 in the USA, about 1,000 were children. Death is not a common outcome for kids who contract COVID-19. Children with underlying conditions are at greater risk.

　感染数は多いし、特に子供の入院数の増加は他の世代より大きい。しかし、死に至るのは高齢者がおおく、基礎疾患をもった子供も入院しやすい。

　高齢者と基礎疾患を持った人たちー子供を含むーーとそうでない人たちをなんらかの方法で隔離しほうがいい。