Uncontrolled transmission in younger people risks significant morbidity and mortality across the whole population.

In addition to the human cost, this would impact the workforce as a whole and overwhelm the ability of health-care systems to provide acute and routine care. Furthermore, there is no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection, and the endemic transmission that would be the consequence of waning immunity would present a risk to vulnerable populations for the indefinite future.

Continues at the Lancet

 

Children’s hospitals across Canada overwhelmed by Covid, RSV & flu

 

 

 

 

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