Prevalence of symptoms, comorbidities, fibrin amyloid microclots and platelet pathology in individuals with Long COVID/ Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) We are sending children to school with no mitigations and a 5% chance of a disease that damages you blood vessels.🩸 ALL 80 patients tested in this paper had moderate microclots.
"A Colorado teen’s long COVID isn’t just persisting — after 2 years, it’s getting worse"
"Lilly Downs, now 18, is fighting life-threatening infections as doctors try to solve “a very big medical mystery”
"As the world pretends the pandemic is over, at least a half-million children in the U.S. are struggling with the mysterious disease." Sept 2022
Thread Starting thread on children who have lost parents and/or caregivers to Covid:
Chicago Public Schools saw an increase in COVID cases in the first week of school after the CDC relaxed guidelines. Low vaccination rates don't help. August 2022
Children who got COVID-19 had increased risks of cognitive deficit, insomnia, intracranial haemorrhage, ischaemic stroke, nerve root & plexus disorders, psychotic disorders, and epilepsy or seizures (HRs: 1·20 to 2·16)."
COVID-19 is not flu, certainly.
6yr old son First day of High School Day 594 of Long Covid
He came home and virtually collapsed. He felt like someone was sitting on his chest and he was suffocating. Pulse was >110, smartwatch shows it >160 during the school day.
He'll be home for day two.💔 #longcovidkids
The CDC covid tracker was reporting 1,742 pediatric covid deaths a week ago and is now reporting 1,933 deaths today August 23, 2022
Thread Pediatric deaths from COVID are exploding, again
In the 0-17 age a staggering nine (9) children a day are now dying of COVID
If sustained: 3,000+ a year
Three (3) a day in the 0-4 age range. 1,000 a year if sustained
@EArceneaux3
@EvanBlake17
@BenjaminMateus7 @JHowardBrainMD
"Covid-19 can severely damage your child's brain.
The research identifies a wide spectrum of neurological complications in children and suggests they may be more common than in adults admitted with Covid-19."
"How COVID-19 Can Affect Your Child's Brain
Some children develop neurological symptoms from COVID-19, including brain fog, memory issues, headaches, and trouble concentrating. We spoke with pediatric neurologists to learn more..."
New @TheLancetPsych study of 1.5 million people shows #COVID increases risk of cognitive decline, dementia, epilepsy, & psychosis.
Most striking finding, to me, is that it documents the serious outcomes in kids. #LongCOVID https://thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(22)00260-7/fulltext
Thread on school closures due to Covid August 2022 "A school in the Calaveras Unified School District closed over a COVID-19 outbreak resulting in low attendance from both students & staff. ~25% of students & 50% of staff were absent Wed prompting the district to cancel school for the rest of the wk."
COVID outbreak closes Mannsville school August 2022 "The school serves ~100 PK-8th grade students; ~20% were out with coronavirus symptoms as of last Thursday, and that number continued to increase. 'We are a small staff, but half of my staff members tested positive over the weekend'" Price-Kelty told KTEN.
Thread One school has been 100% Covid-free with 0 learning loss: Good masks indoors, zero 'mask breaks,' everyone eats outdoors even in bad weather, every room has a HEPA or CR-box and CO2 monitor, at 650 windows open, and at 800 students vacate the room.
Thread According to the CDC's review of death certificates 436 children aged from 0-4 years of age have had COVID listed as a contributor to their death
How does that compare to other diseases?
Thread JAMA: Examination of SARS-CoV-2 In-Class Transmission at a Large Urban University With Public Health Mandates Using Epidemiological and Genomic Methodology - excellent study because it confirms transmission with sequencing - only 9 in class transmissions.
Thread POST-COVID & Kids🚨
New @CDCgov report showing quite clearly that children are at significantly more risk for life-threatening diagnoses after COVID infection. Very convincing evidence that prevention of COVID-19 in children is very important to reduce childhood mortality.
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Brain damage after even mild Covid in kids: Omicron is much better at invading children's noses, predicts memory issues. "Severity of smell dysfunction after infection may be a better predictor of long-term cognitive impairment than severity of COVID-19"
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