Figures collected by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) showing the most common reasons for hospitalizations offers a broad look at the effect the pandemic’s second year had on Canadian children, experts say.
The data reveals the number of kids aged 4 and under requiring hospital care for COVID increased by 600 per cent in the second pandemic year. Between April 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022, some 2,315 kids aged four and under with COVID needed hospital care, compared to just 325 children the previous year.
“It’s not a surprise to see in the pandemic’s second year that there was a large increase in hospitalizations across all age groups for COVID,” said Dr. Amol Verma, a clinician-scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital, a part of Unity Health Toronto.
He said children in the zero-to-four year old age group had neither natural immunity to COVID nor vaccine-induced immunity during this time period putting them “at high risk for being infected by COVID-19 should they be exposed.” For older children and youth, mental health conditions were among the top reasons for hospitalization during the time period, a signal that experts say shows what could be the unintended effects of necessary public health measures and an overall lack of access to proper mental health supports, a problem that existed even before the pandemic.
Gratzer noted that we tend to think about the response to COVID in terms of implications for physical health. “That seemed to be a difficult transition for many of the patients we’re seeing in the clinic. Symptoms that started while they were at home, are coming to the surface during in-person learning,” he said.
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