Speaking to Habertürk about the coronavirus contagiousness of children, Infectious Diseases Association President Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ceyhan said, “During the period when children were curfews all over the world, two wrong thoughts were born. In the studies conducted in March and April, it was concluded that the children did not show any symptoms of illness, nor did they die and these children (virus) did not become infected. Then we were objecting. When these activities were done, the children were not going out anyway. Playgrounds and schools were closed.
“MOSTLY CONTINUES CHILDREN BETWEEN 10 TO 18 YEARS”
For example; In the USA, 2 percent of all patients were children on April 2; In the study conducted on August 6, 9 and half were children when the school was not open yet, only daycare centers and kindergartens were open. These rates will increase even more when schools are opened. We published a series of 220 cases consisting of children we follow. Of these 220 cases, 6 were in intensive care for a long time, were connected to a respirator, and unfortunately we lost two of them. That’s why the thought of doing nothing with children, not infecting children is completely wrong. On the contrary, if you say which age group infects the most, when we put the elderly and adults into the work, children between the ages of 10 and 18 are most infected. Because it is very difficult to control their behavior. They are involved in risky activities to infect and usually bring them to homes.
A VERY LARGE MAJORITY OF HEAVY PATIENTS OVER 65 YEARS, DESPITE LIMITATIONS
Restrictions have been applied for a long time over the age of 65, but also the number of seriously ill patients is increasing every day. It came from the 580s to the 1267s. Despite such prohibitions, the vast majority of those severely ill patients are over 65. Young people and children living in the same house take to the streets. They take the virus and bring it home and infect them. That is why the opening of schools should not be regarded only as children’s health; It is also extremely important for the health of the society. “
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