NSW COVID weekly update: 8 September to 14 September
🔹New cases: 2,020 (+101)
🔹Deaths: 20 (+8)
🔹Total deaths: 7,683 (+20)
🔹Hospital: 606 (-1)
🔹ICU: 10 (-3)
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🇦🇺 COVID-19’s toll on children and young people
"A growing body of work is challenging the view that COVID-19 does not pose a significant threat to most children and young people. It comes amid growing concerns that there could be long-term implications for some young people who have contracted the virus."
Australian children and young people over the past 2 years.
This includes data showing that:
🔹 Around 50,000 children aged 0-14 were hospitalised with COVID between 2021-2022.
🔹 On average one child was admitted to ICU every day in 2022, totalling 362 admissions among 0-14-year-olds.
🔹 Hospitalisation and mortality rates for COVID far exceed those for other respiratory diseases such as influenza and RSV.
Source: https://www.croakey.org/covid-19s-toll-on-children-and-young-people/
