“IT CAN REALLY BE SCARY FOR PARENTS OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN. MY ADVICE IS TO HAVE AS MANY PEOPLE VACCINATED AROUND THE CHILD, TO CREATE A SORT OF PROTECTIVE BUBBLE.”
Ever since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020, and blew our world apart, one single glimmer of hope has helped us parents keep sane: the fact that children seem far less susceptible to getting seriously ill from the novel coronavirus. While the global death toll from Covid-19 at the time of writing approaches 5 million people, children, especially those under 5 years old, are less likely to become ill, and vastly less likely to die if
