More children than ever are being hospitalized with common colds they can’t fight off.
QUICK FACTS:
- A record-setting number of children have been hospitalized due to common illnesses like the cold, due to weakened immune defense.
- Researchers are attributing this increase to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns.
- Experts have also warned that measures used to fend off the spread of COVID, like face masks, are inhibiting the ability of children to build strong immune systems.
- A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that pediatric hospitalizations due to colds were at their highest in August of 2021.
- The increase in hospitalizations has caused some to call for masking and COVID protocols to be brought back, despite concerns they prompted the problem to begin with.
A DOCTOR’S TAKE ON THE RESULTS:
- Dr. Scott Roberts, a medical director at Yale University, commented on the findings, saying, “There are two implications to this. First, the gap gives time for the viruses to mutate even further to cause more severe diseases.
- “And second, whatever immunity was built up to those viruses’ it will have waned making the immune response now much less potent,” Roberts added, noting that children, including his own, were suffering “constant infections.”
BACKGROUND:
- Reports of children’s hospitalizations appear to not take into account the potential negative impact of vaccinations.
- A recent report from Hong Kong said that its vaccine monitoring program revealed several children experienced facial weakness and chest pains following injections.
- The nation’s Department of Health is looking into 120 cases involving people who had received vaccination within 14 days before death.
