Kids and teens — and even newborns — are now among the rising number of Canadians being hospitalized with COVID-19 as Omicron infections keep surging across the country to unprecedented levels. "Now we're seeing kids, for example, with asthma. Kakkar's hospital, the largest mother-and-child healthcare centre in Canada, reopened its pediatric COVID-19 ward a few weeks back. As of Wednesday, 38 infants and toddlers had been hospitalized with COVID-19 over the most recently-available two week period, compared to 15 hospitalized kids and teens. In late December, multiple U.S. states reported rising numbers of kids being admitted to hospital for COVID-19.

Source: CBC News January 06, 2022 19:36 UTC