Kids can, and should, wear masks in schools
Kids can, and should, wear masks in schools “The results have been stunning: in San Francisco schools there have been only seven cases of transmission this year. Contrast that to England, where last week 270,000 schoolchildren were infected. Of those, around 1 per cent may be hospitalised”.
Amber Schmidtke, PhD on Twitter
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.
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For Parents of Disabled Children, School Mask Wars Are Particularly Wrenching (Published 2021)
“We’ve always known that not everybody really cares about our children, but it is in our face right now — that it’s not worth you asking your child to wear a mask, so my child can be safe” https://nyti.ms/3lOQkbI
Chris Whitty warns MPs it is ‘inevitable’ unvaccinated children will catch Covid
"new figures showed that Covid infections have spread rapidly inside England’s schools, following the government’s decision to end the use of preventitive measures such as masks, social distancing and self-isolation"
School system sees rise in COVID cases, quarantining students - Chesterfield Observer
Virginia School system sees rise in COVID cases, quarantining students #Chesterfield
2,025 students were in quarantine as of Sept 21 – 1,197 students at pre-K & elementary level, 482 students at middle school level & 340 students at high school level.
Denise Dewald, MD 🗽 on Twitter
Thread Someone told me that school opening in Ohio wasn't going as badly as they thought it would, and the feared exponential growth wasn't happening.🤷♀️
Ohio pediatric hospitalizations are clearly on an exponential rise. We just aren't testing enough to capture it. High % positivity.
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‘Hard to believe’: Scientists alarmed by COVID’s diabetes link, particularly in children
‘Hard to believe’: Scientists alarmed by COVID’s diabetes link, particularly in children Among Covid-19’s many ripple effects, the worsening of the global diabetes burden could carry a heavy public-health toll. Known in May 2021
