All three sources of pediatric COVID death information agree on this:
The rate at which children die per day from COVID has tripled since the US moved away from hybrid/online schooling and towards mandatory in-person schooling
This hurt the less affluent and minorities the most
Thread Todays IDK who needs to hear this:
Children under age 5 (ie those both ineligible for vaccinations, and most unable to wear a well fitted mask) have a higher death rate than older kids from the virus. They account for 15% of pediatric Covid cases but 35% of pediatric deaths.
Thread 1,346 children have died from COVID. 434 of these kids were too young to get vaccinated. 10,000s critically ill but survived. 6,000 suffered life threatening multisystem inflammatory syndrome. Several suffer from Long Covid. #GetVaccinated #MaskUp https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics
Thread I'm sorry to point out that @GaDPH has a newly reported pediatric death from COVID-19 in today's report. He was a 9 year old boy from Richmond county. His is the 17th pediatric death since the start of the pandemic. I'm so very sorry for his family, his community, his care team.
381 children admitted to the hospital’s in Georgia with COVID in a single week.
4 child deaths in the month of august
60% of all COVID-19 outbreaks in Georgia now take place in K-12 schools
#COVID19 Pediatric (<16) Case Fatality Rate (CFR) has quintupled over the last five weeks. While this CFR is still very low, 0.014%, it does make it extremely important that kids avoid getting infected and hospitalized as much as possible. @GovRonDeSantis must stop killing kids.
Orange County Announces 2nd Child COVID-19 Death Sept 2021
California
An Orange County child under the age of 5 has died from complications of COVID-19, public health officials said Friday Sept 2021
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
JACKSONVILLE, Fla
2 children, including newborn, die from COVID-19 in Duval County, doctor says
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