I am very, very tired and I can't keep having this conversation so I'm just warning you now that once I post this thread I'm muting it because self-care.
COVID in kids is a big deal and it is a serious public health problem.
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In April 2020, our empirical analysis of early #COVID19 data from China argued that 🇺🇸could someday face a pediatric hospital capacity crisis. [no paywall!]
A thread of key points, still highly relevant 15 months later.
#epitwitter #PedsICU
Whistleblowers say they were told to downplay Covid outbreak among migrant kids at shelter At the Fort Bliss migrant shelter in Texas, "hundreds of children contracted Covid in the overcrowded conditions," whistleblowers said in a complaint
Dr. Rick Barr of @archildrens : "Delta variant is acting very, very differently with respect to kids ... just in the month of July, we have [admitted] over 40 to the children's hospital. .. and a number of those have ended up in the intensive care unit."
Long COVID defies understanding with some fearing it could be this generation's polio Doctors fear ‘tens of thousands’ of people could be afflicted by multiple symptoms
An infant is among the children battling COVID-19 in Alabama hospitals.
“I was uncomfortable last year but I am scared right now for what lies in front of us with respect to our children,” said Dr. David Kimblerin.
