Task Force Pediatric News Today

Durante uma segunda onda de infecções que chegou ao auge na Índia em abril e maio, centenas de milhares de pessoas morreram por falta de oxigênio e instalações médicas, e agora existem temores de que uma nova onda se desencadeará durante os meses do inverno local

Kate Zinszer Results from an ongoing study led by an Université de Montréal public-health expert shed important light on the extent to which a small minority of 2- to 17-year-olds in the city had COVID-19 between October 2020 and April 2021. On average, 5.8 per cent of participating children were found to have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. However, the seroprevalence (proportion of children with antibodies in their blood) increased sharply over time. In October and...