The omicron variant is infecting children as the country experiences a surge in COVID cases. Doctors in Tampa Bay are seeing a jump in the number of children coming to the hospital with COVID-19, including children under 5 who aren’t eligible for the vaccine.
In South Florida, hospitals have already seen what some call cases of “flurona” in children where they have both COVID-19 and the flu at the same time.
As the omicron COVID-19 variant causes new cases to surge, doctors in the Tampa Bay area are expressing concern over the growing number of local pediatric cases.