In recent weeks "hospitalizations in the under 19 age group are increasing: cases have gone from 1,024,963 on 28 December to 1,182,094 on 5 January, and in the same period of one week the hospitalizations have passed from 9423 to 10,082, or over 600 more, intensive care from 263 to 268 and the deceased from 35 to 36 ". The president of the Italian Society of Pediatrics (Sip), Annamaria Staiano, notes this to ANSA. In the 6-11 year range, he states, "cases pass for the same period from 343,634 to 392,040, hospitalizations from 1605 to 1711, therefore over 100 more in 7 days, intensive from 38 to 39 and deaths 9".
From these data, concludes Annamaria Staiano, "it emerges that we cannot exclude severe manifestations of Covid-19 even in children and it must be reiterated that the only effective protection is the vaccine. At the moment the vaccine is the only real weapon we have available. ".
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