Things may be returning to normal after the coronavirus pandemic, but how will children’s immune systems respond to the reopening?
But how will Children’s immune systems respond to the reopening Key? Thirteen’s Alyona Gomez reports in this week’s healthy living? It’s been such a strange, strange year amid masking social distancing and hand washing. Health officials say the pandemic also resulted in a drop in routine care. I think the biggest thing now that
Makes us nervous, and we’re trying to scramble for Is really trying to catch up all the kids on their vaccines as cases of covid 19 rows and restrictions kept us home. Many Children went without regular exposure to daycare school and even play dates. We are coming back together, and the worry is
That we’re going to spread other diseases that are vaccine preventable, Some that come to mind for Dr Hennessey includes tetanus, meningitis, HPV and measles. It’s so contagious that. If I had measles in one part of my building through the air ducts that could spread to the entire building if we let
Pockets go unvaccinated, we’re going to see these diseases come back. She also warned about an unexpected trend Doctors are seeing with RSV, respiratory assisting national virus, which typically presents in the winter months. But currently, Dr Hennessey says, is on the rise in Southern states, so to start to see it
Popping up now is unusual. RSV can be associated with severe disease in young Children and older adults. There is no vaccine for the virus. But Dr Hennessey says physicians are keeping an eye on the potential for to move north. We’ve never been through this before, so we have no playbook. Well for
