Sick kids in South Africa
June 12, 2026
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South Africa, Official says number of children sick with COVID-19 is not cause for panic
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/safrican-official-says-number-children-sick-with-covid-19-is-not-cause-panic-2021-12-04/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntsakisi-maluleke-721541b/?originalSubdomain=za
https://english.alarabiya.net/coronavirus/2021/12/04/South-African-official-says-number-of-children-sick-with-COVID-not-cause-for-panic
Higher hospital admissions among children during a fourth wave
Driven by the Omicron variant
Should prompt vigilance but not panic,
as infections have been mild
Ntsakisi Maluleke, public health specialist, Gauteng province
1,511 COVID-positive patients in hospitals
113 were under 9 years old,
a greater proportion than during previous waves
We are comforted by clinicians' reports that the children have mild disease
Health officials and scientists were investigating what was driving the increased admissions in younger ages
No paediatrics phylogenetic epidemiology yet
They would rather have a child under care for a day or two than having a child at home and complicating, ... but we really need to wait for the evidence
She said many COVID-19 patients in Gauteng reporting non-specific flu-like symptoms,
like a scratchy throat,
as opposed to more easily identifiable markers like a loss of taste or smell
Parents and pregnant women, more hospital admissions recently,
to get tested in case intervention is needed further down the line.
Gauteng's dedicated COVID-19 bed occupancy, 13%
US current surge is delta
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/02/delta-variant-surge-omicron/
New Jersey Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli
Delta driving the state’s uptick in hospitalizations
I encourage everyone not to be hysterical about what we don’t know about omicron,
but to be really proactive in controlling what we do know,
which is the delta variant is here,
it’s with us,
it’s causing increasing trends
Omicron so far
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