Graphs & Statistics. Children & COVID-19. Updated 3rd October 2021

Stats updated 3rd October 2021 with thanks to @TigressEllie and @jneill

School aged Child Infections

• 1 in 20 of children in years 7-11 are estimated to have been infected

• Cases in school aged children are rising exponentially

Child Covid ONLY Hospital Admissions (a separate test exists for RSV)

• School aged child hospital admissions are averaging 35 per day.

• Government research shows that 80% of admissions are directly due to Covid and 60% of those have no underlaying conditions.

• 5.9% of all COVID admissions are children.

• This means COVID-19 is being taken into hospitals by children

Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome

• These hospital admissions are IN ADDITION to COVID admissions

• These children are usually admitted after the 14-day testing cut-off

• There were 720 PIMs admissions to the end of February 2021

@TigressEllie

Almost half of children in hospital, and a third with the late severe complication of PIMS-TS, had no underlaying health conditions

A quarter of children hospitalised for COVID-19 experience persistent symptoms on average 8.5 months after hospitalisation

Paediatric Deaths

• 89 UK paediatric COVID-19 deaths

Long Covid in Children

In the UK we do not yet count Long Covid. We therefore, rely on estimates from research and lived experience. Different studies have different estimates due to use of different symptom lists, durations, case ascertainments, population representativeness, and definitions of relapsing and remitting symptoms. Some studies have a control group and others do not. Most rely on parental reporting.

Until there is an agreed definition for Long Covid in children we can expect to see different prevalence figures quoted in articles. Sadly Mainstream media have long minimised Long Covid and usually choose the lowest prevalence figure published despite experts raising concern about the methodology gaps used in the research. Nevertheless, a small percentage of a large number should raise concerns amongst all.

Children are not supposed to get ill and die.

United States of America

“One year after becoming ill w/ the coronavirus, nearly half of patients in a large new study were still experiencing at least one lingering health symptom”

The CDC stated nearly half of infected children were experiencing Long Covid, and early research stated 43%.

Attached is a selection of the latest UK estimates which range from 2-14%

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Admissions

https://api.coronavirus.data.gov.uk/v2/data?areaType=nation&areaCode=E92000001&metric=cumAdmissionsByAge&format=csv

Cases

https://api.coronavirus.data.gov.uk/v2/data?areaType=nation&areaCode=E92000001&metric=newCasesBySpecimenDateAgeDemographics&format=csv

Deaths

https://api.coronavirus.data.gov.uk/v2/data?areaType=nation&areaCode=E92000001&metric=newDeaths28DaysByDeathDateAgeDemographics&format=csv

• For further details and to discuss graphs/stats contact James on Twitter @jneill

• For further details and to discuss data collation/stats contact Ellie on Twitter @TigressEllie

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