Coronavirus: Children and COVID-19 vaccines: What you need to know

 
TORONTO --
COVID-19 variants of concern continue to push hospital ICUs to maximum capacity and are the driving force behind several provinces' recent imposition of harsher restrictions for the public.
Generally, they’re also infecting a younger cohort of patients than the initial strains of the coronavirus.
While in the initial two waves of COVID-19 cases among children and adolescents were low, the recent surge of variants could change who contracts the virus in Canada, said clinical researcher and Toronto physician Dr. Iris Gorfinkel.
“What are we seeing? An increase in hospitalization and increase in ICU? And why is that? Because the variants are so much more contagious,” Gorfinkel said in a telephone interview with CTVNews.ca on Wednesday. “So that leads to the logical question: could new variants do the same in kids?”

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