Is COVID More Serious In Kids Today Than It Was When The Pandemic Started?
We were told COVID is mild in kids, but news of a 13-year-old s death sparked renewed fears among parents. Allan Britnell, Today s Parent Updated
May 17, 2021
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The news that a 13-year-old girl from Brampton, Ont. died in April from COVID-19 brought parents’ worst fears bubbling to the surface: with
new COVID-19 variants and a third wave of the virus spreading across the country, should we now be more worried about our children falling ill or dying?
The short answer is no, says Jeremy Friedman, associate paediatrician-in-chief at Toronto’s SickKids Hospital. “I don’t think that parents should necessarily be any more worried.” That’s because even with the variants spreading in Canada it is still