Covid is a threat to Australia’s children – and not only through infection | Alexandra Martiniuk and Elizabeth Elliott
Our priorities should be to vaccinate over-12s in schools, improve classroom ventilation, and ensure timely access to health services
Australia’s current Covid resurgence has seen infection in thousands of children. Most are cared for in a hospital-at-home model using virtual care with daily contact from health professionals. Some are taken to hospital because of acute illness, or when sick parents are unable to care for them.
There is a risk of rare severe disease the higher the number of infections in children. Fortunately, few have developed the severe consequences of Covid. But the impact of long Covid in children is still not fully known.
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