A recent report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) says the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic was particularly tough on Canada's youngest children in terms of hospitalizations.
It found COVID-19 was the sixth most common reason newborns to 4-year-olds were hospitalized in 2021-22, with 2,315 patients in that age range in 2021-2022."Some of those other respiratory infections, things like pneumonia, and viral causes have come back," said Nicole Loreti from CIHI."They've returned to the top 10 in the second year of the pandemic after a decline in the first year.
Some parents say the virus was under-recognized for children under age four, and the lack of available vaccines at the time didn't help. "I really feel like our children specifically in the age group under five, but all children in general, were really let down the most during the pandemic," said Elder-Chamanara.
"The disease was under-recognized and children, a lot of children didn't even get tested. So we were under testing, and therefore under-recognizing this disease in kids," said Dr. Cora Constantinescu, paediatrician and infectious disease specialist at Alberta Children's Hospital.
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