COVID-19 and Pediatric Asthma: What Patients and Parents Need to Know
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Covid and Kids
Tyler Black, MD on Twitter
Thread MISINFO: 🇨🇦 children's mental health is declining due to pandemic measures🚫
✅TRUTH: when we ask kids how they're doing, most tell us "the same or better✅
🚫MISINFO: more 🇨🇦 kids were hospitalized for self harm/overdose🚫
✅TRUTH: both dropped for kids✅
Sky News on Twitter
"The spread amongst children does have an impact on others.”
Health Secretary Matt Hancock addresses the effect of the virus on children and explains that there are “plenty of good reasons” to vaccinate young people. June 2021
Chris Turnbull on Twitter
Thread UK, OMICRON: Peadicatric ICU shows child surge as Omicron hits: data has been ignored by SAGE:
Jerome Adams on Twitter
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.
Dr. Deepti Gurdasani on Twitter
Thread ONS data on long COVID out today very concerning -persistent symptoms affecting daily life affect a significant proportion of primary & 2ndary school age children -clear impact on children's wellbeing 🧵
COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey, England - Office for National Statistics
COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey, England: mental health and long COVID, November to December 2021
Long Covid Kids - #LongCovidKids on Twitter
Thread Happening right now💥
Please join @WHO for a webinar on #LongCovid #LongCovidKids
🧠 Neurology up now 🧠
Cognitive impairment…Psychological manifestations following Covid-19 infection
How children are being affected by long Covid
How children are being affected by long Covid
Cleavon MD 💉 💉 💉 on Twitter
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
Eric Feigl-Ding on Twitter
Thread When over half of kids & half of young adults have gotten #COVID19–#LongCovid impact for years to come will be crazy high. That’s both physical illness, mental illness, cognitive deficits, and ballooning healthcare costs. Mark my works—we will regret “let it rip”. #CovidIsNotOver
Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz on Twitter
Thread ‘According to the Government of Canada re #LongCovidKids
“About 58% of children had 1 or more symptoms 4 weeks or more after their initial COVID-19 infection.” ‘
COVID Virus Linked with Headaches, Altered Mental Status in Kids
“Of hospitalized children who tested or were presumed positive for SARS-CoV-2, 44% developed neurological symptoms, and these kids were more likely to require intensive care than their peers who didn’t experience such symptoms.”
Huge numbers of children are becoming Covid "long-haulers"
The kids are not alright: Data suggests 10% of children with COVID-19 become "long-haulers" January 2022
Adam J Calhoun | neuroecology@mastodon.social on Twitter
This post from a NYC high schooler about the covid situation right now is wild https://reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/rxwnbl/i\_am\_a\_new\_york\_city\_public\_high\_school\_student/
Cleavon MD 💉 💉 💉 on Twitter
6 y.o. Aria Shapiro from Arizona is 1 of 470,000 children unfortunate to have epilepsy in the U.S. This is the face of a child with "underlying conditions." She was partially vaccinated when she became severely ill from COVID. #TheySurvivedCovid https://youtube.com/watch?v=s4ExbHL8Ujg
Eric Feigl-Ding on Twitter
Thread 4) The willful neglect of children during this pandemic will go down in history as among the most sociopathic heinous political decisions of the pandemic. Here are record after record for pediatric #COVID19 hospitalizations in 🏴— just continued surges of kids in 🏥 w/ #Omicron
Dr Zoë Hyde on Twitter
Thread Shocking data from England. On 22 October, 4% of pre-primary & primary school children & 9% of high school children were estimated to CURRENTLY have COVID-19.
Infections are rising in parents: 25 Sep: 0.8% 2 Oct: 1.2% 9 Oct: 1.2% 16 Oct: 1.5% 22 Oct: 1.8% https://ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/29october2021
Michael Mina on Twitter
Thread Now that the kid has their first vaccine AND a sample for antibody test, there will be 3-4 weeks to confirm if the child has antibodies to COVID.
This long period of time offers tons of flexibility to ensure a highly accurate result is obtained - I’ll give examples below
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Isabella Eckerle on Twitter
Thread Our pre-print on a #SARSCoV2 #Alpha variant outbreak in a primary #school in Geneva - epidemiological and virological investigation - what have we found & what have we done? #COVID19 #children #Switzerland
Epidemiological, virological and serological investigation into a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (Alpha variant) in a primary school in Geneva, Switzerland: a prospective longitudinal study
Epidemiological, virological and serological investigation into a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (Alpha variant) in a primary school in Geneva, Switzerland: a prospective longitudinal study
WesElyMD on Twitter
Thread 1/🧵 “Let kids get #Covid”
This struthious (ostrich-like) mantra is wrong-headed.
✅ Kids can get super sick w #COVID ✅ Kids can suffer #LongCovid ✅ Kids spread virus to vulnerable adults ✅ Kids wears #masks proudly ✅ Kids should be #vaccinated when able
Study confirms kids as spreaders of COVID-19 and emerging variants
Children could be dangerous carriers of virus Study finds kids to be potential spreaders of COVID-19 and emerging variants October 2021
Clinical features of pediatric post-acute COVID-19: a descriptive retrospective follow-up study - Italian Journal of Pediatrics
Clinical features of pediatric post-acute COVID-19: a descriptive retrospective follow-up study August 2021
TashiLousie on Twitter
Little girl with rash 4 weeks after covid, nothing helping. The covid patient groups are full of these- new onset allergies & MCAS diagnoses.
Children with long covid
Children with long covid:
“Almost half of children who contract covid-19 may have lasting symptoms,” Known in March 2021
Parents sue Wisconsin schools after their children catch covid: ‘Recklessly exposing the public’
Parents sue Wisconsin schools after their children catch covid-19: “Recklessly exposing the public”
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”.
AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD on Twitter
This is my opinion on classrooms in light of further neurological publications.
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.