{"id":33847,"date":"2021-07-08T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/08\/new-zealand-children-falling-ill-in-high-numbers-due-to-covid-immunity-debt"},"modified":"2021-07-08T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T04:50:08","slug":"new-zealand-children-falling-ill-in-high-numbers-due-to-covid-immunity-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33847","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand children falling ill in high numbers due to Covid \u2018immunity debt\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors say children haven\u2019t been exposed to range of bugs due to lockdowns, distancing and sanitiser and their immune systems are suffering<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand hospitals are experiencing the payoff of \u201cimmunity debt\u201d created by Covid-19 lockdowns, with wards flooded by babies with a potentially-deadly respiratory virus, doctors have warned.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington has 46 children currently hospitalised for respiratory illnesses including respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. A number are infants, and many are on oxygen. Other hospitals are also experiencing a rise in cases that are straining their resources \u2013 with some delaying surgeries or converting playrooms into clinical space.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/08\/new-zealand-children-falling-ill-in-high-numbers-due-to-covid-immunity-debt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors say children haven\u2019t been exposed to range of bugs due to lockdowns, distancing and sanitiser and their immune systems are sufferingNew Zealand hospitals are experiencing the payoff of \u201cimmunity debt\u201d created by Covid-19 lockdowns, with wards f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,346,914,56,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-science"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33848,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33847\/revisions\/33848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}