Here's why the Covid-19 pandemic still poses significant risks for children: ForbesFrontlines
That’s changed recently, as a new life-threatening syndrome, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children , has emerged in a small number of children. Its precise cause is unclear, but most children with this syndrome have evidence of Covid-19 infection or known infected household contacts. Over 170 cases of MIC-C have been reported in New York and likely a few hundreds of cases will be found elsewhere in the US and abroad.
MIC-C represents only a very small part of the threat of Covid-19 to children, however. The major impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children globally is the collapse of childhood immunization programs. 80 million children are projected by the WHO to be at risk for all the major vaccine preventable diseases — polio, measles, typhoid, yellow fever, cholera, rotavirus, HPV, meningitis A and rubella, because of disruptions caused by the pandemic.
Measles and polio vaccination campaigns have been particularly curtailed, with measles campaigns suspended in 27 countries and polio campaigns put on hold in 38 countries. The reasons for suspending immunization programs have been to protect both healthcare workers and patients, as well as interruptions in critical vaccine supply chains.
Without major national and international commitments to curtail the impact of Covid-19 on children’s health, millions of lives will be compromised or lost.
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