Covid and Kids

Covid and Kids

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Children with long covid
Children with long covid

Children with long covid:

“Almost half of children who contract covid-19 may have lasting symptoms,” Known in March 2021

·ncbi.nlm.nih.gov·
Children with long covid
Kids can, and should, wear masks in schools
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”.

·theage.com.au·
Kids can, and should, wear masks in schools
Amber Schmidtke, PhD on Twitter
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.

·twitter.com·
Amber Schmidtke, PhD on Twitter
Jonathan Howard MD on Twitter
Jonathan Howard MD on Twitter

Thread Per the AAP, 174 kids have died of Covid since this was posted.

This article did not even acknowledge children could die from the virus.

·twitter.com·
Jonathan Howard MD on Twitter
School system sees rise in COVID cases, quarantining students - Chesterfield Observer
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.

·chesterfieldobserver.com·
School system sees rise in COVID cases, quarantining students - Chesterfield Observer
Denise Dewald, MD 🗽 on Twitter
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.

·twitter.com·
Denise Dewald, MD 🗽 on Twitter
Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez on Twitter
Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez on Twitter
"We are seeing more healthy children with no underlying condition with severe COVID, and that is different than the rest of the pandemic; There has been a switch,” said Dr. Allison Eckard, a pediatric infectious disease physician at MUSC."
·twitter.com·
Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez on Twitter
The Oregonian on Twitter
The Oregonian on Twitter
Oregon’s second-largest high school temporarily closes due to COVID-19 spread https://
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The Oregonian on Twitter