EDMONTON As Alberta navigates the third wave of COVID-19, health experts are concerned of the high transmission rates of the disease in children, and in particular the long-term impacts it could have on their development months after diagnosis. According to pediatrician, Dr. Tehseen Ladha, Albertans under 18 make up close to a third of the province’s COVID-19 cases. Out of the provinces more than 23,000 active cases, more than 6,000 are under the age of 20 and 2,500 are under the age of nine. “These are completely healthy children,” Ladha said. “And some of these completely healthy children are ending up in the hospital, and some are ending up in the ICU, and then there’s this whole other group that may have had the mildest of COVID-19 infections that then end up developing more severe long term symptoms that are really debilitating.”
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 29, 2021 - A study led by UPMC Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine shows that Black children are 18% less likely to get imaging tests as part of their emergency department visit compared to White children. Hispanic children are 13% less likely to have imaging done than Whites.
The researchers suggest that this disparity results from overuse in White children, though underuse in minority children probably plays a part as well. The root cause likely stems from both patient preferences and implicit bias among providers.