Boston Children’s Hospital reporting jump in coronavirus patients, creating more isolation rooms amid omicron wave | Boston Herald

CEID Faculty Dr. David Hamer comments on the jump in child hospitalizations in the Boston Herald.

“The jump in pediatric hospitalizations is ‘a little surprising’ because omicron tends to cause milder cases and children have had ‘pretty mild’ cases since March 2020, said Davidson Hamer, a Boston University specialist in infectious diseases. ‘But when there’s so many more cases with omicron, you’ll see more hospitalizations,’ Hamer added. ‘If a lot more children are getting infected, that very small proportion becomes a bigger number.’”

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