13 Jan 2022

Covid: Study warns children can fall seriously ill from virus

From Morning Report, 8:23 am on 13 January 2022

Covid-19 isn't just a "mild infection" for our tamariki, according to a new international study on children who caught the virus. The study followed children from ten countries, including New Zealand, found of the more than 3,000 children infected nearly a quarter required hospitalisation. Child vaccinations start here on Monday Professor Stuart Dalziel from the University of Auckland was one of the study's authors -and spoke to Sarah Robson.