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People who minimized the risks in schools and to children more generally; those who said prevention methods were harmful or ineffective…
These are your results. You helped undermine the faith and willpower of communities to do what was needed to take action.
Own it.
#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.
Thread: I made these threads of #kidsandcovid bc people were saying that kids couldn't or wouldn't get COVID. They do.
They also spread it.
We don't know what the virus will do longer term & are just facing how it spreads.
This a collection of news reports, tweets, and studies. 1/4
DPH has identified 373 student cases of COVID and 56 staff cases of COVID in County public and private schools in the first week of classes.
Read more in the St. Louis County COVID-19 Update: 9-8-2021 http://ow.ly/fICb50G6wPv