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Majority of children recover from COVID-19 even if they become severely or critically ill, the Philippine General Hospital's spokesman said Sunday.

The country's largest COVID-19 referral center has 8 virus patients occupying its 12-bed pedia ward, with 4 more patients waiting to be admitted, according to Dr. Jonas del Rosario.

The patients' ages range from a few days old up to 15 years old, he said.

"The good news is even if children become severe or critical, majority of them recover. It might take a longer time," he ABS-CBN's TeleRadyo.

One of the parents are allowed to stay with their child at the ICU, he said.

The PGH has a 6 percent mortality rate for child virus patients, he added.

Children who succumb to COVID-19 normally have comorbidities, including those with heart diseases, said Dr. Anna Ong-Lim, pediatric infectious disease specialist at PGH.

Around "10 percent" of the country's 1,727,231 total infections are in the 0-19 age group, added Lim, who also serves as a member of the Department of Health technical advisory group.

"We've observed that there's an increase in infections in the age group of 0-19. We have to understand that this in the context that cases in all age groups are rising," she said.

"I think people need to understand that no matter what age group can be infected. As cases rise in a community, children will also be affected."

Parents are urged to follow minimum health standards outdoors such as proper wearing of face masks and face shield, observance of physical distancing, less than 15-minute interactions with people, and proper air circulation in a venue, Lim said.

They must also wash their hands once they return home to avoid spreading the virus to their children and other vulnerable members of the family, Lim added.

"Although we say majority of children are mild and symptomatic, there are those with more severe illness. It is usually those with comorbidity," she said.

Meanwhile, the adult intensive care unit in PGH with 40 beds is full, according to Del Rosario. Some 90 percent of patients occupying the ICU are unvaccinated, he noted.

Around 70 percent of the hospital's total virus patients have not received a COVID-19 jab, he added.

"What we've observed is aside from vaccination status, a person's comorbidity and age affect the severity of their illness," he said.

The PGH has a 16 percent mortality rate for COVID patients as it receives severe to critical cases as an end-referral hospital, according to Del Rosario. It has a daily average of 3 to 4 deaths over the last 7 days, he said.

The Philippines on Saturday logged 14,249 more COVID-19 infections, the second highest single-day tally since the start of the pandemic.

Of the total infections, 98,847 or 5.7 percent are active while 30,070 were deaths. Authorities have confirmed the detection of the highly transmissible Delta variant.

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

And by "spike" Reuters means 0.04% as many daily cases as America.

Judakel posted:

that will soon change

Lenin Stimpy posted:

My guess is that there is probably not very good data at the city level. And I imagine that most hospitalized Redmond residents are taken to another city? Not sure if that counts for Redmond or the city they are hospitalized in.

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

Yeah soon it will be 0.02% even when we have five time as many cases.

Thoguh posted:

100,000 Max Titers a day.

https://twitter.com/cyrusshahpar46/status/1426619408626094082?s=19

McNugget Buddy posted:

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Testvan posted:

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Blaziken386 posted:

so how long do you think it'll take for the government to admit that everyone should probably get a booster, not just those with hosed immune systems

asking for my friend, max titers, who is seriously considering standing around in the lobby of walgreens tomorrow

corona familiar posted:

thought i'd join the booster party



new account but long time lurker

McNugget Buddy posted:

Billy Joel concert in Buffalo right now: