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Covid cases are declining in kids, but the coronavirus, too, is circulating at high levels. ... Symptoms that warrant an immediate trip to the emergency room include a child's refusing to eat ...
Reports of children with the unusual inflammatory syndrome related to COVID-19 have been increasing nationwide. Here's what you need to know.
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise among children, experts discuss the symptoms of omicron and the role of vaccination in keeping kids safe.
Symptoms of COVID-19. Some less common symptoms of COVID-19 can be relatively non-specific; however the most common symptoms are fever, dry cough, and loss of taste and smell. [1] [22] Among those who develop symptoms, approximately one in five may become more seriously ill and have difficulty in breathing.
An early study investigating children with lower respiratory tract illness, found that HCoV-NL63 was more commonly found in outpatients than hospitalized patients, suggesting that it is a common cold virus similar to HCoV-229E and HCoV-OC43, which generally cause less severe symptoms. [15]
Several explanations contributing to the milder COVID-19 symptoms experienced, in the acute phase, by children have been suggested, including [16] [17]: a lower expression of ACE-2 (the receptor used by SARS-CoV-2 for cell entry) in the respiratory tract in younger children; viral interference (e.g. by other coronaviruses)
COVID-19 often shares a lot of the same symptoms as influenza, including stuffy or runny nose, sore throat, cough, muscle aches, fatigue and fever or chills. But unlike the flu, COVID symptoms can ...
In some settings, people with any mild illness were urged to remain home until symptoms were clear. Those standards, and the caution behind them, remained for years after schools reopened to in-person instruction. That meant children often missed large portions of school after contracting or being exposed to COVID-19 or other illnesses.