New paediatric Covid-19 hospitalisations have hit a record-high in the United States, as children are increasingly swept up in Omicron’s lightning spread. While experts are concerned, and stress the need to step up vaccination among kids, early indications suggest that the new variant’s rate of severe disease could in fact be lower, and its extreme contagiousness is behind the rapid …
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December 31, 2021