Covid more lethal to children in this wave? Top US Doctor explains

More children are becoming COVID positive in this period, according to Dr Faheem Younus, Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health in the United States, who is a renowned medical specialist. This is not because the coronavirus is more harmful for children. Because total infections are substantially greater than in previous rounds of the Covid-19 epidemic, this is the case.

Dr Faheem while speaking to news agency ANI said,”There is a belief with Omicron variant of Covid-19 that it tends to infect the upper respiratory tract more as compared to our lungs and lower respiratory tract. Children have anatomically their upper respiratory tract in a developing phase. So that’s probably one of the reasons that we’re seeing more hospitalizations. But by and large, children are still doing much better than adults and people who are elderly and immunocompromised.”