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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/04/delta-variant-what-do-we-know-about-the-coronavirus-strain-in-australian-children

Regarding Australia and delta:

“In the UK, they are seeing a large number of younger individuals being infected with the Delta variant,” she says. “You’re then faced with the question: is it something fundamentally different about this variant, or is it simply that the unvaccinated members of the population are getting infected, which would not be surprising.

“When the Alpha variant first emerged, there were [initially] also these suggestions that it was more transmissible in children,” Short says. “That doesn’t seem to be the case.”

Prof Catherine Bennett, the inaugural chair in epidemiology at Deakin University, says across all age groups, the Delta variant is more effective at causing infection. Delta is at least 50% more infectious than the Alpha variant, previously the dominant strain in the UK.

“[Children] may not be as infectious as adults still, but they are now an important part of the spread of the virus in the community,” Bennett says.

Does  the Delta variant make kids sicker?
In the UK, there has been an increase in hospital admissions in young people with Delta, says Prof Fiona Russell, the director of child and adolescent health at the University of Melbourne. That rise may be partially attributable to how transmissible Delta is, rather than an increase in virulence.

Early UK figures have shown the risk of hospital admission is 2.61 times higher with the Delta variant compared with the Alpha variant first detected in Kent.

“We [still] don’t have good solid data that the Delta variant is more virulent,” Short says.
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