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[quote=Anonymous]And it's here.
[b]Children's National Hospital Sees Surge in COVID Patients[/b]

[quote]"We have had much sicker children admitted to the hospital over the past three to four weeks," said Dr. Alexandra Yonts, an infectious diseases physician at Children’s National Hospital.
Children’s National Hospital is reporting a dramatic increase in young coronavirus patients. It’s a trend we’ve seen nationwide, with more than 180,000 new pediatric COVID-19 cases added over the past week.

"It was somewhat phenomenal," Dr. Yonts said. "It went from zero COVID cases and zero MIS-C or post-COVID type of kids, to, you know, a half dozen to a dozen overnight."

Dr. Yonts said even though children are less likely to develop serious symptoms or die from COVID-19 compared to adults, some can get very sick.

"Several of these kids were intubated in the ICU and also infected with multiple other respiratory viruses, which likely contributed to them being sicker," she said.

Children’s National currently has 13 patients hospitalized with COVID. To put that into perspective, the hospital says their peak number was 18 COVID patients, which occurred during the winter surge we experienced late last year and early this year.
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https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/coronavirus/local-impact/childrens-national-hospital-sees-surge-in-covid-patients/2785132/[/quote]

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