Record numbers of children in A&E with fevers as experts fear winter in June
Doctors are treating a surge in viruses that may have been suppressed during lockdown
25 June 2021 • 6:12am
Doctors say they have been treating two to three times the number of children they would normally expect for the time of year
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“Record” numbers of children are turning up at A&E with winter fevers that were suppressed during lockdown, health leaders have warned.
Emergency doctors have described treating two to three times the number of children they would normally expect for the time of year, with anxious parents bypassing their GP and NHS 111.
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