Medical professionals report that children diagnosed with the new Omicron subvariant of COVID-19, XBB.1.16, display conjunctivitis symptoms.
According to the Sun Sentinel, multiple health experts have reported children coming in with “itchy conjunctivitis with sticky eyes, not seen in earlier waves.”
In an April 6 Twitter post, Vipin M Vashishtha, former convenor of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics and consultant pediatrician at the Mangla Hospital and Research Center in Bijnor, India, stated that he had seen a rise in children coming in to be treated for COVID-19 infections displaying conjunctivitis and “sticky eyes.”
“For the last 2 days, have [sic] started getting pediatric Covid cases once again after a gap of 6 mo! [sic],” he wrote. “An infantile phenotype seems emerging,” he wrote, adding that children coming in to be treated displayed high fevers, colds, and coughs and “non-purulent, itchy conjunctivitis w/sticky eyes [sic], not seen in earlier waves.”…