A study in Great Britain stated that the number of patients requiring mechanical ventilation beds since Omicron’s propagation remained stable until December, unlike previous pandemic peaks.
The Omicron variant of coronavirus leads to an increase in hospitalizations around the world. This also affects the younger population, especially children, because of which health experts strongly recommend taking a vaccine.
But the strongly mutated strain – some studies claim OMICRON have more than 50 mutations – do not cause serious diseases. More than a dozen studies have been conducted in Omicron since its emergence in South Africa on 24 November and at least half a dozen say it causes a softer disease than previous versions of the coronavirus.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, nearly 199,000 children were reported infected by COVID-19 in the week ending on December 23, the last week for which data are currently available and a 50% increase in figures earlier. in the month.
But the grave sickness rates remain much lower in absolute terms compared to older age groups.
There were 803 people from people aged 0 to 18 years of Covid in the United States, on more than 820,000, as the pandemic began.
The first research on Hong Kong based on tissue sample laboratory tests have shown Omicron replicas up to 70 times faster in the bronchi, respiratory tract leading to the lungs, compared to Delta, which can help explain to explain its extreme spread throughout the population.
Its relative sweetness could be explained by the same Hong Kong study that showed Omicron reproduces 10 times more slowly in the lungs compared to Delta, and a Hamster study from the University of Tokyo has brought this.
In Britain, another seriously affected country after the United States, the government said that it believes that the new variant is softer than the delta variant.
The number of patients requiring mechanical ventilation beds also remained stable until December, unlike previous peaks of the pandemic.
The analysis was published by the United Kingdom Health Agency, after working alongside the Cambridge University’s MRC Biostatistics Unit to analyze 528,176 Cases d’Omicron and 573 012 Delta case.
He also found that vaccines can work well against Omicron.