The number of children needing hospitalization for COVID-19 has roughly tripled over the last month at Advocate Children’s Hospital.
The number of children needing hospitalization for COVID-19 has roughly tripled over the last month at Advocate Children’s Hospital, doctors said Thursday, as Illinois continues to see record numbers of cases.
Since mid-December the children’s hospital, which has campuses in Park Ridge and Oak Lawn, has had about 25 to 38 kids in the hospital on a daily basis because of COVID-19 or COVID-19-related issues, said Dr. Frank Belmonte, the hospital’s chief medical officer, during a news conference. About one-fourth of those children are in the intensive unit, he said.About half of the children hospitalized at Advocate for COVID-19 or COVID-19-related issues are younger than 5, he said.
A record number of people are also now hospitalized with COVID-19 in Illinois — with an average of 6,218 patients with COVID-19 in hospitals each day over the last week, as of Tuesday. The increase in hospitalizations is straining hospitals, which have, in many cases,Though the now-spreading omicron variant seems to be milder than the previous delta variant, it is far more contagious.
Doctors also, however, cautioned that it’s important to balance the need for safety with children’s mental health. Parents should control what they can control within their own homes — such as wake times, bed times, and positive relationships — to help kids through this latest surge, especially as some schools go remote, said Dr. Laura Yahr Nelson, a pediatric psychiatrist with Aurora Children’s Health.
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