Doctors in Britain have been sent an urgent alert warning of a rise in children admitted to intensive care with a coronavirus-related condition.
has been small in the UK – and mostly in London – but senior paediatricians are concerned.
The “urgent alert”, seen by the Health Service Journal, was issued on Sunday night by the Paediatric Intensive Care Society.Paediatricians and GPs are being advised to refer children with symptoms urgently to paediatric infectious disease experts and intensive care doctors.That doesn't mean that kids can't catch the virus – in fact, the youngest known case in the UK was only 30 hours old.
Symptoms may appear similar to other respiratory illnesses, such as the flu and the common cold, but COVID-19 is said to more likely to trigger a cough and fever, researchers said.Especially because children's immune systems aren't as robust as adults and they tend to overreact.
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