The relatively low number of COVID deaths among children has led some parents to wonder if exposing their child to COVID voluntarily is the best way to ensure they get the disease quickly in order to gain immunity.
chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, told thethat “there is no guarantee that if you expose somebody to COVID that they’re going to live through that exposure and so any time somebody’s exposed to COVID unvaccinated [it] increases the risk of death and while we know that children aren’t dying in as frequent numbers as our adult population there is still death in children from COVID, so why would we risk an...
Conti continued, stating “We have seen children die from COVID. We’ve also seen children be hospitalized with serious illnesses from COVID and COVID is a new virus and so what we don’t know is what those children, what those adults who get COVID now will look like in years to come. We already have seen adults with long-COVID symptoms from confusion to respiratory illnesses. Those same things can happen in children.
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