At least 75 percent of children will get Covid this winter, according to a Waterford GP.
However, most of them won't even know they've had it.
Speaking to WLR, Dr Austin Byrne from Tramore Medical Centre says people need to build up antibodies and they can only do that by being vaccinated or contracting the virus:
"If you've had a recent Covid infection or a recent vaccination or better still, if you had both, you've got really high levels of antibodies, but a year later, your antibody level is lower. So you're far more susceptible and it's one of the reasons we're probably going to settle into a very distinct seasonal pattern.
"Our kids are all getting Covid this year... when I say all 70-80% . There's very little escaping Covid and 80% of them won't even know they've had it. They won't have a symptom, but they will have an antibody response. And that'll last through to the spring."
Dr Siobhan Murphy from Murphy Medical in Ardkeen agreed with Dr Byrne. She says the sick children attending GP surgeries are not coming in with the virus
"Covid in children is as, as a rule, a very mild illness or an illness that is completely asymptomatic. The sick children we have seen this, this Autumn coming into the Winter have not had Covid. They have had other respiratory illnesses, children for whatever reason, manage Covid very, very well with little or no symptoms."
The GPs were in conversation with Damien Tiernan on Deise Today, listen back to the full interview here
