I’d wager the vast (99.95%+) majority of kids who were kept inside to protect them from Covid, have gotten Covid by now or will get it and recover, meaning that will they have Covid immunity AND were denied the opportunity to better avoid this hepatitis infection.
I think you misread the article, granted it buried the lede.
The suspect is an instant hit of multiple (in this case two) infections at the same time, when in normal conditions only one at a time would be likely.
The solution to this issue is both unlocking lockdowns more carefully to detect such problems, and deploying vaccines if such a problem is identified.
Not practical, unfortunately.
Plus, in typical conditions, neither of the viruses is highly problematic. Only when you get both at the same time you're more likely to suffer, and when unvaccinated to either.
Kind of the same problem with COVID, it can also contribute to a terrible secondary infection. In this case, quite some time after even recuperating from it.
To add to the thought experiment: If it were possible to isolate every single human being (and animal etc.) a considerable number of pathogens would die out.
One of my children is currently very afraid of statistically unlikely events causing him harm or death. Part of life is evaluating choices for likelihood of harm and deciding if that is an acceptable risk.
I’m not saying this or that about the causes that led to this illness, but 30 cases per country is a bit hard to justify as an input to decision making, especially at a community or country level. It’s valuable information, but if we hid under the sheets for everything that affected a small portion of the population, we’d all have bed sores.
Appreciate the irony that the people in favor of taking no actions against covid because the probability of dying is so low are the same people in this thread crying over 1000 people worldwide.