The highly transmissible Omicron variant is teaming up with the busy holiday season to infect more children across the United States than ever before, and children's hospitals are bracing for it to get even worse.
The highly transmissible Omicron variant is teaming up with the busy holiday season to infect more children across the United States than ever before, and children's hospitals are bracing for it to get even worse."I think we are going to see more numbers now than we have ever seen," Dr. Stanley Spinner, who is chief medical officer and vice president at Texas Children's Pediatrics & Urgent Care in Houston, told CNN.
Parents need to keep an eye on their children and take care to protect them, Owensby advised."Go back to due diligence. Watch your kids' social distancing," she advised. They should wear masks when it's appropriate -- when they are indoors with other, unrelated people, for instance."Masks do not hurt kids," Owensby said. Younger children can have fun wearing masks and playing superhero, she said.
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