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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by twofornone on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:51PM (#30198635)
The risk of hospitalization for children is virtually zero. The risk of hospitalization for healthy people under 50 is miniscule.
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by the_why_of_y on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:12PM (#30200383)
Risk of hospitalization for children aged < 5 years with Omicron is quite a bit higher than previous variants. Take a look at the CDC data, compare age groups this year vs. one year earlier.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitali...

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by mikysco on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:00PM (#30201881)
This trend exists because children are being tested for COVID after being admitted to the hospital for entirely unrelated issues (broken bones, etc). They're in the hospital _with_ COVID, not in the hospital _because_ of COVID.
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