How children, young people and adults carry the coronavirus

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The second wave of the incidence of COVID-19 infection has brought new data that people of different ages are sick with it in different ways. Experts explain how children, adolescents, young people, adults, people over 50 carry the coronavirus. Find out who is not afraid of covid, and who may have complications.

Mortality statistics from COVID-19 in different age groups

Clinical practice shows that a dangerous infection affects people's health in different ways and after it, dangerous complications can appear. At the very beginning of the pandemic, it was believed that most often only elderly people with weakened immune systems die from the coronavirus. And young people, children and adolescents are not afraid of this infection, they tolerate it asymptomatically or in a mild form.

WHO experts argued that the greatest danger of a new respiratory tract infection is for the elderly and those who have severe chronic diseases, and children tolerate COVID-19 easily.

This information was based on data from Chinese doctors, who were the first in Wuhan to face a dangerous infection. Clinical data from European countries have made significant adjustments to the overall picture of the disease.

New statistics on the incidence of coronavirus in different age groups according to data from China, Italy, Spain, Russia shows the following mortality results:

• from 70 to 79 years old - 8%;
• from 80 years old - 14.8%;
• under 9 years old - 0%.

At the same time, statistics from European countries and the United States showed that young people with chronic diseases are also susceptible to covid.

WHO today updated data on COVID-19, indicating that all age groups are at risk. It is already known exactly how a healthy person - a carrier of a dangerous infection - transfers the coronavirus. Clinical data show that symptoms begin to appear in most people 11-14 days after infection.

These include:

• heat;
• lack of smell;
• sore throat;
• lack of oxygen in the blood.

Anyone who has at least one of the symptoms should immediately self-isolate and call a doctor at home, informing by phone that they have identified symptoms of COVID-19.

Coronavirus is dangerous for all people

Disease statistics in Russia, the USA and European countries have shown that young people aged 20 and over can get into intensive care with covid. The data obtained during the fight against the pandemic in the spring and summer of 2020 show that a severe course of coronavirus infection can be not only in the elderly, but also in young people and children.

How young people get sick with coronavirus

Professor of the Graduate School of Health Care Management, University. Sechenova Artem Gil tells how young people who are in intensive care are carrying the coronavirus. In the absence of concomitant chronic diseases, such patients most often recover if intensive therapy is provided in a timely manner.

The specialist notes that smokers are at risk among young people. For them, the likelihood of undergoing severe covid increases by 14 times. The same applies to those who abuse alcohol.

In addition, representatives of the younger generation who have undiagnosed chronic diseases are at risk. Young men and women, not knowing about their illnesses, believe that they are not afraid of the coronavirus, therefore they often do not observe the mask regime and do not wear gloves in public places.

It should also be borne in mind that during the season of respiratory infections, ARVI and influenza can be combined with COVID-19 in people of any age, causing a severe course of coronavirus infection.

Doctor-virologist Evgenia Selkova in her interview to the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva pointed out that against the background of an increase in the incidence rate among young people under the age of 40, it is still difficult to explain exactly how dangerous this infection is for people of working age.

Probably, today doctors are observing the development of herd immunity. And the increase in morbidity among this age group is associated with mobility and an increase in the volume of testing.

In general, doctors today know exactly how a person with strong immunity, who adheres to the mask regimen and hygiene rules, tolerates the coronavirus. If he leads a healthy lifestyle and is not included in the risk group for age and chronic diseases, then, most likely, he will get mild covid disease.

How dangerous is coronavirus for children

Tatiana Nachinkina, the head physician of the St. Olga City Children's Hospital, in her interview with the Internet publication Doctor Peter, told how a child is carrying the coronavirus, and pointed out that infants and adolescents are most seriously ill with covid.

She told how a one-year-old child tolerates coronavirus, whose immunity is just beginning to develop, and the number of compulsory vaccinations is still not as large as in preschool and primary school children. Infants with chronic severe pathologies that worsen the course of coronavirus infection are at risk.

Most often, infants with coronavirus suffer from an intestinal infection, which can occur in a hemorrhagic form (diarrhea mixed with blood).

In adolescents, severe forms of covid are caused by poor health, hormonal changes in the body and the presence of chronic diseases. Often symptoms in infants and adolescents are:

• fever;
• loss of smell and taste;
• dyspnea;
• temperature;
• labored breathing;
• mild intestinal infection.

The decision to hospitalize a child must be made by a doctor. In most cases, children with mild Covid-19 receive symptomatic treatment at home.

The doctor also called an atypical symptom for adults, which is observed in children - "cobbled fingers". The phalanges swell, resemble frostbite and become covered with a rash. It hurts to touch them.

This symptom is a precursor to the development of vasculitis. As soon as parents notice "covid fingers" in their babies, they should immediately call a doctor at home. With timely initiation of therapy, children of any age quickly recover from such a dangerous infection.

Chief pediatrician of the D. G. St. Olga Tatiana Nachinkina, referring to the experience of her hospital, says that they have to treat newborns as well. If small children have chronic diseases, doctors prescribe hospitalization, since a number of tests and examinations can only be carried out in a hospital. With proper and timely treatment started, all babies recover.

To protect yourself and your loved ones from COVID-19, you should know how most people of different age groups carry the coronavirus. This will help in time to identify the symptoms of a dangerous infection in yourself, children and your parents, quickly self-isolate and call a doctor.

The sooner an accurate diagnosis is made, the higher the chance that adequate treatment will be initiated. It will help avoid severe forms of coronavirus and complications.

Outcomes

1. In the off-season, the coronavirus can combine with SARS, influenza, and other viral infections, affecting people of different ages.
2. Do not assume that COVID-19 is harmless for young people and children. This is a false judgment. Everyone can get covid.
3. Infants aged 0 to 12 months are more severely infected with coronavirus.
4. The main symptom of coronavirus in infants is the appearance of an intestinal infection.
5. Everyone must follow the mask regime and avoid mass events.