US study: Unvaccinated children hospitalised at twice the rate during Omicron surge

Hospitalisation rates for unvaccinated children ages five to 11 were twice as high as among those who were vaccinated during the record Covid-19 surge caused by the Omicron variant, according to a US study released on Tuesday.

For every 100,000 unvaccinated children in the age group, 19.1 per were hospitalised with Covid-19 between mid-December and late February, compared with...