Thread by @DrEricDing

⚠️NOT MILD! This 3-year-old cries “Mommy I’m scared” as he was put on a ventilator, is among almost 140 Utah children <14 who were hospitalized with #COVID19 in the past 2 weeks— 📌kids age 0-1 hospitalizations now even rivaling 🏥 in age 65-84!!! 👀
sltrib.com/news/2022/01/2…

2) in the past two weeks as the number of serious infections explodes, especially among infants and kids younger than 5.

📌For very young children, one pediatric specialist said, the omicron variant may not be so much “milder” than previous strains of the virus.

3) In Salt Lake County alone, 15 children under 5 were hospitalized last week, more than double any other week of the pandemic.

4) The omicron variant “attacks the [upper] airways more than the lungs, and younger children have smaller airways,” Pavia explained.

Many infants and young kids being admitted in recent weeks have had a barking, “croup-like” cough.

5) “This is pretty miserable,” Pavia said in a news conference last Friday. “If your child has it, they struggle to breathe, they have a lot of secretions and they need oxygen.”

6) it’s also not so mild for kids in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 either - where they are experiencing over >2x the hospitalization than ever before last winter! 👇

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1484921586595635206

7) Show you someplace else with more data of higher hospitalization risk in kids? Let’s see the latest South Africa 🇿🇦 CDC data … it confirms both the Utah data and 🇬🇧 data. See below ⬇️

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1485011065276620807

8) the “mild” propaganda rhetoric has really allowed the #Omicron Trojan horse to insidiously infect too many people.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1476799723080146945