Tomorrow's @AmerAcadPeds
@hospitals4kids
report will inevitably show the highest number of pediatric cases in the pandemic, with ~1% of this large number of kids requiring hospitalization https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20and%20CHA%20-%20Children%20and%20COVID-19%20State%20Data%20Report%208.26%20FINAL-update.pdf So much of this is preventable.
Who wants facts about COVID-19 and children?
Almost all children will eventually be infected if they aren’t offered vaccination.
Of those children who test positive: 🤒 1 in 14 will get long COVID 🏥 1 in 100 will be hospitalised ⚰️ 1 in 20,000 will die Known in July 2021
No, we can’t treat COVID-19 like the flu. We have to consider the lasting health problems it causes July 2021
My teen got COVID at school. 104 fever and severe gastrointestinal symptoms, two ER visits. She is fully immunized! Our school district does not encourage masks. Teens suffer social exclusion and bullying if masked.
The recklessness is inexplicable!
More child deaths in the last week of August than the whole rest of the pandemic. Hospitalization trends suggest they will rise higher and higher.
This is preventable.
Texas Judge Says There Are No Kid ICU Beds: Have To ‘Wait For Another Child To Die' "That means if your child's in a car wreck ... and needs an ICU bed ... we don't have one," said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. August 2021
Columbia County teen dies with COVID-19 days before start of senior year, family says Mother says 17-year-old wanted to attend University of Florida, become a surgeon
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