which children were most affected during the fourth wave?

Live on Europe 1, the doctor of political science Mélanie Heard, sounds the alarm, and indicates a considerable advance of the Covid 19, in the coming weeks. A spread that would affect more and more children.

According to the projections of the Institut Pasteur very worrying for the start of the 2021 school year. According to the doctor in political science Mélanie Heard, head of the health center of the Terra Nova think tank, the month of September could witness a considerable advance of the virus on French territory. In total, France could have 100,000 daily cases of Covid-19 with nearly 50,000 children and adolescents.

Invited to the antenna of Europe 1, Mélanie Heard then declared: “This is obviously something which is worrying all the same and which cannot be treated as anecdotal information”.

A concern maintained by the equally alarming situations in the surrounding countries. In the UK, for example, hospitalizations of children responding positive to the Delta variant have increased by more than 24% compared to last week. Although the chances are lower for a child of developing a severe form of the virus, the spread remains very worrying.

“It’s simple, it’s a matter of proportion. If you have a very low proportion of a small number, that makes very few people. But if you have a very low proportion with tens of thousands of denominator infections, you are still very worried. “, said Mélanie Heard before adding:
“50,000 contaminations every day, that still makes a significant number of lives turned upside down”

Less protected minors

According to Mélanie Heard, the lower vaccination coverage among minors would be a possible variable, and those for 2 crucial reasons: “Firstly because the vaccine is not accessible to children under 12 and, secondly, because 12-17 year olds only had access to vaccination a little more than a few years ago. ‘one month. We therefore have a population which, mathematically, is less protected and therefore more attractive for the virus. “

Although the development of severe forms in children is less, another subject worries the doctor: long Covid.

“These symptoms that last several weeks after infection and that we do not yet understand very well. They can take the form of chronic fatigue, difficulty concentrating, breathing difficulties that have been well described and well recognized in adults and now also recognized in minors “, she said before continuing:

“You have in England, in Switzerland, long specialized Covid consultations in pediatrics which are open to try to move forward on the description of these cases and on their best management. We are still in a science in the making. It is absolutely not a question of being too categorical on this subject, but one would turn between 2 and 10% of the pediatric infections which could give rise to this type of symptoms several months after the infection. ”.

Pauline Gaudry

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