In full COVID-19 emergency, most scientific studies have focused their research on adult patients. New drugs, vaccines and transmissibility factors were only analysed in the case of adult patients and children and adolescents were given little consideration.
As it is appropriately indicated in the article: It’s Time to Put Children and Young People First During the Global COVID-19 Pandemic written by Saul N. Fausta and Alasdair P.S. Munro and published on Jama Network, there are few studies of COVID-19 in the pediatric field and even governments are not managing well this lack of information on covid-19 linked to the paediatric world.
As reported in the article: “of 30 outbreaks (consisting of 2 or more cases), 22 involved only staff-to-staff or staff-to-pupil transmission. On the other hand, studies in secondary education in France and Israel during periods of high community transmission have demonstrated outbreak potential”.
Although these data are not entirely negative, there are still many inaccuracies about the transmissibility of the virus among children and adolescents and how much this virus can actually prove fatal even in very young people.
Governments should be concerned with looking after the well-being of future generations by organising suitable and safe plans for schools and for initiatives that have to do with young people.
