Delta and children

US, 20% of cases in under 18s Cases https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases Hospitalizations https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admissions Florida, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi Vaccinations https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccination-trends In children 7.1 million fully vaccinated, 12 to 17s representing 39 % of 16- to 17-year-olds and 27 % of 12 to 15s Pentagon Mandatory vaccination for 2 million Texas Hospitals at capacity Florida Cases + 22,903 (a pandemic high) 179 pediatric patients K – 12 opens today Governor, no mandates in the state of Florida (Arizona, Texas) CDC, 27th July, everyone should wear masks in schools Any school superintendent that mandates masks risks losing their salary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CACRb3sTa6k Paediatricians disagree Dr Aileen Marty, Florida International University our children's hospitals are completely overwhelmed Our pediatricians, the nursing staff, are exhausted, and the children are suffering It is absolutely devastating Our children are very much affected We've never seen numbers like this before https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/08/10/hundreds-us-children-hospital-covid-should-uk-worried/ Pfizer and Moderna, vaccines for 5 – 11 years olds by end on the year US Children in hospital, 1,450 400 child deaths from covid so far, (34 to 200 die from seasonal flu each year) Last 7 days, 94,000 child cases last week Dr Mark Kline, Children's Hospital New Orleans I've never seen anything like it We are seeing children fall ill that we just simply didn't see in the first year of the pandemic, before the delta variant came along Child admissions, zero to 20 in two weeks Illness duration in children of at least 28 days https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(21)00198-X/fulltext 77 (4·4%) children 59 (5·1%) older children 18 (3·1%) of 588 younger children Commonest symptoms, first 4 weeks of illness Fatigue 84·4% Headache 77·9% Anosmia 77·9% Symptoms for at least 56 in children 1·8% of 1,379 children UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274 Hospitalisations in under 18s, 278 per week Alasdair Munro, paediatric registrar, University Hospital Southampton We are extremely busy in the children’s emergency department with Respiratory Syncytial Virus and norovirus among other things, but are still seeing very few cases of Covid-19 Australia https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/coronavirus-covid-19-case-numbers-and-statistics Locally acquired Cases, + 379 Current active cases, 5,333 Currently hospitalised, 432 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices