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19 Apr, 389 tweets, 166 min read
It has been 9 months of this #kidsandcovid thread.

Starting a new section tonight as kids are getting sick more and getting sicker more.

GIF from Rosemary's Baby - this 9 months has also spawned demons. Not just COVID and mutations but how the privileged react to it all.
Covid Once Spared the Young. Now More Are Going to the Hospital

Spencer w/B.1.1.7. variant has kept him mostly bedridden and suffering headaches/swollen ankles since March 17.

Michigan 50 pediatric cases in hospitals Thurs. And more here:
H/t @CM01647759
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Image
As Trump Demanded Schools Reopen, His Experts Warned of ‘Highest Risk’ - The New York Times

July 11/12 and then December. Plenty of studies but a very flawed one highlighted when teams changed.

57k cases vs 70k cases. <crazypillsgif> <explainitlikeim5> ImageImageImageImage
August 9: How widespread is COVID-19 in children? A look at the latest data as schools reopen

Nearly 9% of all coronavirus cases are in kids, the latest AAP report found.

Ah memories! When the AAP report was publicized.

Awww how cute/s. 338,982 kids with COVID. ImageImage
August 11: COVID cases in children nearly doubled in just 4 weeks

The cumulative number of new COVID cases among children in the US jumped by 90% during a recent 4-wk period, according to a report that confirms children are not immune to the coronavirus.
mdedge.com/pediatrics/art…
To now: As of April 15, over 3.63 million children have tested positive for COVID since the pandemic began. Similar to previous weeks, we have seen another increase in new reported cases – about 88,500 new child cases.

So 300+k in July to this now.

And
We
Are
Ok
With
It
!
3,631,189 total child COVID-19 cases reported, and children represented 13.6% (3,631,189/26,617,913) of all cases

Overall rate: 4,824 cases per 100,000 children in the population
88,497 new child cases reported the past week from 4/8/21-4/15/21 (3,542,692 to 3,631,189) children represented 20.6% (88,497/429,727) of new weekly cases

Over 2 weeks, 4/1/21-4/15/21, there was a 5% increase in cumulated # of cases (161,689 new cases (3,469,500 to 3,631,189)
Link to the ABC story from above:
abcnews.go.com/Health/widespr…
Data:
services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-…
To summarize:
July 30, 2020: 338,982 kids
April 15, 2021: 3,631,189 kids

July: 447 cases per 100,000 children in the population
April: 4,824 cases per 100,000 children

And they just keep going. And no one tries to stop it except the people who are begging for this to change.
Could it get worse? "P1 accelerates intubation of young people and Sao Paulo advises them to seek care on 1st day of symptoms."

Yes. Worse than adding 3.3 million cases in kids in 9 months worse. Because they're getting sicker, faster.

From @DGBassani
Minnesota: Some see teens speaking truth to power. Some see that and holy 💩those are HS students in Minneapolis.

That many HS kids participating in school classes there? Not supposed to be per the CDC map, eh? ImageImage
"But they're open in Israel!" 🤡

And look how it's done. After months of lockdowns, vaccination, and now testing and taking care of business.

"White blobs are bad." We've all seen the NYT report on the neurological issues that kids are having. But how about a really great thread on it?

Yes! Here from @Dr_FarrisD

Finally: "Sometimes we tell ourselves atrocities don't occur in the present."

From @fitterhappierAJ



9 months. Any steps forward? I feel like it's more backwards now.
Backwards - an example immediately so adding it in - Ducey and the mask mandate in schools in Arizona.

H/t @lynchem1

There is a story - Chicken Little - that I hated as a kid. Each time I heard about it, I'd argue Henny Penny's case.

She became alarmed when an acorn fell on her head. She convinced others, etc, bad ending. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Pen…

I argued that she was right to be alarmed.
And that had they kept at the level of wariness throughout their journey, nothing bad would've happened and they would've gotten the proper info about the acorn.

Better safe than sorry.

How are we trapped in a real life version of this book? Where warning/caution is bad?
Wisconsin is seeing more COVID cases among kids than any other age group right now. Over the last few weeks, the state has seen a 56% increase in child COVID cases.

Speaking of that story.

channel3000.com/doctors-say-sp…
@Idontma48200911 @Loretta_Torrago @Theresa_Chapple @Epi_D_Nique
The shadow orphan crisis of Covid-19

More than 40,000 children. Who will help them?

Well I'm assuming blue check folks, everyone salivating over going maskless (the bad people, not the cool ones), and everyone actively working to muffle ZeroCovid?

vox.com/science-and-he…
Shots in Little Arms: When Can Kids Get the Vaccine?

Shots
In
*Little*
Arms

Hurry up baby, we've got tickets to <whispers: where do people who vacation with kids go?> Euro Disney?

nymag.com/intelligencer/…
South Carolina: Higher percentage of positive COVID-19 cases coming from kids

In April, DHEC reports 7.1% of new cases are coming from children 10 and under

wyff4.com/article/dhec-h…

Read the image (or the whole thing) (or none of it - I can't tell you what to do)! Image
Without comment. Except saying without comment. Is there a better way to do that? 👀 maybe? Image
A New Mexico school sent all kids back in person in one day. We followed a teacher to see how it went.

Is this Covi-ganda?

They do have some really good things like going outside to eat. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Prince Edward Island: Child who had COVID-19 discharged from hospital as P.E.I. confirms 1 new case

Meanwhile in an alternate universe

cbc.ca/news/canada/pr…
There are so many tweets too. New Hampshire: More than 100 Gilford High students in quarantine

Via @CoastalBendBern from @NhCardona603

A reminder this awful, extremely important thread exists:



Because we do not act. (You can help push via ZeroCovid.us)
Finally, that WaPo thing and I'm encouraging you to read this from @Loretta_Torrago:

1 from her timeline (follow for more)


2 her own thread which is aces as they said way back, maybe in the 1918-21 pandemic. I'm bringing it back!
#kidsandcovid and with over 3 and a half million kids in the US (way under counted) with Covid, we don't count Long COVID well (do we?), with 3k+ cases of MISC, we find this out today:

Please read the above on the COVID herd immunity WHO connection. No #COVIDisAirborne and no #ZeroCovid when you're trying to get everyone sick by infection, as well as some other well funded ideas.

These people have played a part in the deaths of 3+ million people. Mind blowing.
Study shows COVID-19 case rates in schools higher than previously believed

The Omaha Public School district program tested asymptomatic students and staff.

I'm sorry. I need Miss Jay for the faux surprise.
They found that infection rates in schools involved in the first phase of the pilot program were:

2️⃣.5️⃣ times higher for staff

Nearly 6️⃣ times higher for students

Than what was being reported through routine self-initiated tests and reporting.
The results show as many as:

9 in 10 student COVID-19 cases
7 in 10 staff cases

Might be missed by conventional reporting

Missed
In
School
Symptoms absent
Errors of
Denial

There were also 10x more cases in the community than thought. Oopsie.
Props to them in Nebraska! Did this from November to December at 3 schools in South Omaha at the middle and high school levels. The specific schools were not identified in the study, but it was mentioned that all teachers and staff, and 12% of students, participated.

Meanwhile
The program screened students and staff without symptoms weekly using a PCR test of saliva that the University of Nebraska Medical Center adapted from the saliva test developed at Yale University. It also conducted environmental air, surface and wastewater testing in the schools.
The 1st phase of the program found 46 cases in asymptomatic individuals -- about equally split between students and staff. + air and surface samples were also found only in choir rooms, environmental sampling "consistently" found the presence of COVID-19 in the schools' wasteH²0
Not yet peer reviewed. Article here:

abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/stu…
A reminder from Monday:

July 30, 2020: 338,982 kids
April 15, 2021: 3,631,189 kids

July: 447 cases per 100,000 children in the population
April: 4,824 cases per 100,000 children

If you're not angry, you're not paying attention.
Finally, if you're paying attention there are things unsaid and said. It may not always be clear, but listen to people who have nothing to lose or gain from telling the truth.

Earth Day and #kidsandcovid have something in common. All our little actions help a lot, but we are stuck in the sludge if the people who should lead, don't lead, or lead in the wrong direction. And there are people motivated by money who are being the scenes.
In Michigan, a record-breaking number of children have been hospitalized with Covid

Experts blame a more transmissible variant, which appears to be spreading faster among children and adults.

Children *and* adults. Narrows it down. /s

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…
Wisconsin: Pediatricians Concerned About Rise In COVID-19 Among Children

90 Cases Of Rare* Inflammatory Condition From COVID. Average Age Of Those Dx Is 7 Years Old. Whole pandemic.

*how many is rare? Is there a threshold?

wpr.org/pediatricians-…
"We want people to report these cases as quickly as possible to us, so we can learn more about this in the future," Haupt said. "I don’t think it’s going to go away."

Theyre also going to be testing in Wisconsin schools.
Children make up nearly 21% of new COVID-19 cases
aappublications.org/news/2021/04/1…
Oh look AAP is talking about COVID again.
Those stats from AAP are up thread. Including last week's 88,500 #kidsandcovid in one week. One week, more than all the people in Duluth Minnesota.

They don't include the 3.63 million number - just a link.

@KatyTurNBC @jaketapper @DrLeanaWen I remember you worrying abt this.
COVID-19 can make asthma symptoms worse in children

COVID can cause long-lasting lung damage. Symptoms could be worse for those with asthma.
kens5.com/mobile/article…
Not North Carolina! COVID-19 clusters in three Asheville schools, one child care facility

They had a study so these must be COVID by proxy.

A cluster is at least five people testing positive for the coronavirus in 14 days. 

citizen-times.com/story/news/202…
Compared to others their age, the pregnant women were 13 times more likely to die from the virus and 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized with severe cases.

Lots of interesting info in this very sad story.

fredericksburg.com/news/local/loc…
Finally, I haven't looked to see who has talked about this; kind of a self-care thing. But @LongCovidKids @dgurdasani1 @DrZoeHyde and all amazing people - "Long COVID, like all other serious COVID symptoms, appears to be highly rare in children" acceptable risk, etc. And 😳. ImageImage
More excess deaths than 1918. Want this here in this thread. It's still happening.

How could this happen?

Sometimes, my brain starts to process before my defenses suppress and I feel the glass of sanity breaking.

Interesting thread on cases in kids in the UK:

In the Netherlands - the use of kids to increase herd immunity. Which we do here and call it either OPEN THE SCHOOLS or a 100 day plan.

Meanwhile, in Georgia:

Let's get out of there - to Quebec - and they know how bad it is and they do close schools (lots) as needed.

Oh I have an idea. Let's get teachers like this in England together with the parent from Georgia above.
Good thing this doesn't happen in children's bodies ever, because their bodies are...how would anyone think this ever?



Kids, go into respiratory therapy, pulmonology, or any of the other things on this list and never worry about a job.
Michigan: Pediatric COVID hospitalization rates increase 311%

‘We are in a public health crisis’: More children being hospitalized due to COVID

There are 1,500 pediatric COVID cases diagnosed every day.

What.

clickondetroit.com/health/2021/04…
This thread has seen a ton of patterns and trends from the beginning - kids don't get COVID to now - kids don't get COVID (Georgia mom tonight) to many other things.

Tonight there were a lot of posts with number of cases. This is important for a lot of reasons. Cases predict.
Increased cases means increased hospitalizations and then eventually, sadly, deaths.

What if we didn't know how many cases there were? How would that impact risk, awareness, and mitigation? How are the vaccines doing? Who knows!

Probably all great!
Except we know it wouldn't be great.

It'd be like walking in a room of invisible rattlesnakes. Especially if you were unable to be vaxxed, immuno-atypical, a child whose family won't vax, etc

And we know it doesn't work. Compare us with Vietnam.

It does work for herd immunity. ImageImageImage
All of this to say of all trends and patterns that I've seen in this thread, this is one of the worst. The worst? Most chilling? Because it seems to be, at its core, herd immunity dressed as a cool mom.

Seems it to me anyway.

Thanks @Loretta_Torrago!

I just wanted to clarify what I mean by the tweet before last about "working for herd immunity." I meant for the Great Barrington type and that it "works" in a bad way.

And honestly, herd immunity when COVID and coronaviruses are more like dominos than a one and done is silly.
Anyway, what do we do here for Long Covid in kids? There's good news if we don't do much, because @LongCovidKids does, globally. Find out more here:

Long COVID in children: what parents and teachers need to know

This is from March. Does anyone know if we have a group in the US?

theconversation.com/long-covid-in-…
They did a Politifact! COVID far less dangerous to kids, but wrong to say they ‘are not affected’

What do you think they're correcting?

You're probably wrong - it's not Leonhardt or Oster or Biden Town Hall. It's the Georgia mask mom from last night.

politifact.com/factchecks/202…
Migrant Children Depart Erie (33 had COVID)

Can anyone explain this process?

Buses left for Erie International Airport, where a chartered plane was waiting. The plane arrived around 11 a.m. and left around 12:40 p.m. for New York's LaGuardia Airport

erienewsnow.com/story/43743317…
Rochester Regional Health pediatrician discusses the rise in COVID-19 cases in children
whec.com/rochester-new-…
May I sum up the discussion in a gif?
Michigan among a few states seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases among children

wxyz.com/news/coronavir… Image
That Michigan article made me look at the AAP information more in depth.

1. Shows how data is provided to AAP. Note green, yellow, teal. NY and TX esp 🙄
2. Data limitations
3. Cumulative # of #kidsandcovid up to 4/15
4. Cumulative cases/100k kids. Wowza! That tells a story. ImageImageImageImage
1. Total cases and then percent increase in cases for 2 weeks. Of course Texas and NYS not included.
2. A graph of cases week by week in kids.
3/4. Check notes at bottom but data by state - with population of children in each state.

This is truly unbelievable. ImageImageImageImage
Finally, child mortality. When we know better, we do better. If we know elimination works - and we do - and we don't pursue it, we are complicit in the incredible number of years lost here.

Small numbers? Each one is a child. There's no justification for preventable deaths. ImageImage
"Long Covid Kids are calling for all counties to get involved in their campaign to raise awareness of the prevalence of Long Covid in children."

Lots of info on how to do it - please share with family/friends, docs/educators.

@LongCovidKids to follow

longcovidkids.org/member-stories
Rochester, NY: Health officials warn about COVID-19 transmission in schools

rochesterfirst.com/coronavirus/he…

So tired. We warn. We don't do.
Schools Can Open Safely during COVID, the Latest Evidence Shows

The risk of COVID transmission in schools is very low if precautions are taken

scientificamerican.com/article/school…

See my counter argument in the image below. Image
Western NY: Too much COVID? Right now in Niagara County there are 321 cases per 1000 people, three times the limit/1k for in person

Transmission rates are also high in Erie County
wkbw.com/rebound/state-…

@perdidostschool is this regulation in all of NYS?
Some Utah lawmakers want to know why children in grades K-12 are still subject to a mask mandate at school.

Alternately, some UT lawmakers not convinced water wet, earth round, gravity exists.

ksl.com/article/501537…
Maryland: There are currently 43 schools experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks, according to the Maryland Department of Health website.

wtop.com/maryland/2021/…

Md. schools experience COVID-19 outbreaks while bringing students back to classrooms
1/ Massachusetts Updates School Quarantine Guidance
Close contacts exposed to a COVID-positive individual in a classroom or on a bus while both individuals wore masks no longer have to quarantine unless they were within three feet of that person for a total of 15 minutes
2/ During the week from April 8-14, 1,095 new student cases of COVID-19 and 184 new staff cases were reported by Massachusetts schools.

nbcboston.com/news/local/mas…

Good plan!
Finally, it's Sunday night so we ask the question - is your school district in person? Should it be?

This week, previous 3 weeks from:
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…

Is it getting better? ImageImageImageImage
Have to click above to see these. Very odd formatting! Image
#kidsandcovid if you want to look at the data on kids who passed from COVID, you can see it here:

data.cdc.gov/widgets/nr4s-j…
Miami Private School, Centner Academy, Won’t Employ COVID-19 Vaccinated Employees
miami.cbslocal.com/2021/04/26/mia…
Wow, now for something completely different I guess. At this point I understand this as much as the rich outdoor anti-mask folks.
8 Classmates, 2 Fully Vaccinated Family Members, Test Positive for COVID in Lower Merion
LMSD Health Services are consulting with the Montgomery County of Public Health in the investigation

1st #inschoolcovid they say, there
They also found an air issue. nbcphiladelphia.com/news/coronavir…
French primary pupils return to school despite high COVID numbers

So much in common! 😘

Macron comes right out w/it!
reuters.com/world/europe/f…
Most Minnesota schools to stay open despite growing COVID-19 spread among students
dglobe.com/news/education…
Makes sense!
‘Health freedom’ activists target school boards in fight against Michigan COVID restrictions
mlive.com/politics/2021/…
Who is paying them I wonder?
Who paid these people? Was it ego? What would make them do this?

Like here when there is a conflict not disclosed? I'm just asking questions - are there more or are these people just completely untethered from both capital and reality?
Originally from this thread:
Finally, ugh. Minnesota. Minnesota child under 10 with no underlying conditions dies from COVID

Remember they're in school despite increasing Covid cases.

Also WHAT is that headline?
keloland.com/news/healthbea…
In Illinois a rough comparison to start #kidsandcovid

Maybe that will help people grasp the loss.

I'm incredibly cranky about all of this. How can we do this to kids, their families, entire communities including school staff?

Then I remember a guy who argued for child slavery is still on MSNBC so maybe those are our values.

newrepublic.com/article/160481…
Hawai‘i Health Officials say Child’s Death Attributed to COVID

And yes, he had underlying health conditions so everyone can breathe a sigh of relief - it's the "others" who will suffer this loss.

The child, a boy with known underlying health conditions, was visiting Hawai‘i
with his parents from another state.

He experienced COVID-19 symptoms shortly after arriving in the islands and was taken to a hospital where he died.

Both parents were fully vaccinated before making the trip to Hawai‘i.

mauinow.com/2021/04/27/haw…
You can't help but think of all the articles about your unvaccinated child and traveling.

We don't, but other people believe the stuff being shoveled. And why should you have to comb through tons of info to make decisions? Image
Champaign Illinois: Champaign Highschool has COVID-19 Breakout

Public health has been concerned about COVID spreading in schools ever since they reopened

No details

wcia.com/news/champaign…
Last week, Illinois: 700 Naperville School District students quarantined after 25 tests positive for COVID

Wow that's a prettttty big cohort.

Naperville Illinois:Insane Clown Posse
Cohorts:Magnets

Is that right?

wgntv.com/news/coronavir…
Erie High moves to remote learning after several students and a teacher test positive for COVID

This is all going so well isn't it? Imagine if *this* was your idea of fun? And not eliminating this virus so we could live freely.

yourerie.com/health/coronav…
Finally, COVID cases down in kids this week to just under 80,000! Wow! Amazing! /sarcasm 3.71 MILLION total.

TOTAL numbers for the week from other countries for adults and kids. I don't have the brain power to do the per million that they have here. worldometers.info/coronavirus/we… Image
From last night's #kidsandcovid death of a child tourist in Hawai'i - what is this headline?!? Child’s COVID Death on Vacay Exposes the Painful Dilemma of Post-Vaccine Life for Parents

How is there a dilemma? Can my kid fly on the plane or in the plane?

news.yahoo.com/child-covid-de…
Emergency dental study of kids - with the sample size of 921 patients, the overall SARS-Co-V-2 positivity rate was 2.3%

The study looked at pediatric patients who visited UIC dental clinics for emergency dental procedures

medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-a…
Study from Omaha, Nebraska shows vast failure to detect COVID-19 in schools

Nice article from @WSWS_Updates on the Nebraska study discussed here on this thread but never on CNN, etc as the WI study was.
wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Odd.
But wait, there's more: In Washington D.C., for the period July 31, 2020 to April 21, 2021, the top two settings for coronavirus outbreaks are child care/day care (43 outbreaks) and school buildings (38 outbreaks)

Link above! From

@HarveySimpkins1
‘It scares me’: KC area parents refuse COVID tests for their sick kids

They’re coughing. They have fevers. Their throats hurt. Could they have COVID?

Dr says she doesn’t know: Many parents refusing to have their sick children tested

Omg this article 🤯: kansascity.com/news/coronavir…
Not testing kids - not to mention the possibility of Long Covid, heart issues, MISC and infecting others. ImageImageImage
Illinois: Mercer County High School has a COVID-19 outbreak. District officials blame a parent-planned prom

They went from Illinois to Iowa to do this. Because selfishness has no borders.

qctimes.com/news/local/mer…
8.5% of Hanford High students are now quarantined. Some parents are upset

"Can we speed this along? Can we hurry this up?" one father asked.
The increase came soon after Richland and other Tri-City school districts moved from having students sitting 6 feet apart to allowing students to sit 3 feet apart
msn.com/en-us/news/us/…
Richland School Board this week that decrease in spacing has led to more students being in closer contact if someone in the classroom has COVID-19.
Finally, from @LongCovidSOS
"Children hospitalised in Russia followed up - 1/4 still had symptoms 7 to 9 months later. Persistent fatigue very common, the cause of which 'needs to be determined'. Significant reductions in wellness reported"
#LongCovidKids
theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
Tonight a couple from Israel, who we watch closely:

Article one -
Children from 5 schools among Israel’s 41 cases of Indian COVID strain

Health Ministry says 17 cases identified among people who haven't left the country, indicating community spread; 4 of those diagnosed are fully vaccinated
H/t @PPEtoheros
timesofisrael.com/children-from-…
"Full text of letter from AB pediatricians sounding alarm about #COVID19 and children. BC children are NOT magical. BC schools are NOT magical."

@BCSTA_News

From @beansprouts_mom
Meanwhile in the US, here's a letter influential people sent to reopen schools:

And another letter from physicians - in images - in the US saying 3 feet is far enough from kids.

Contrast with the pediatricians' letter above from @beansprouts_mom

Pretty sad.

Rochester NY/Monroe County: over 600 kids under 19 in a week. Population 739,582

More than 100 Grosse Pointe teachers stay home after COVID change

This is a reader. Lots of back and forth and some support for the teachers!

More than 1,900 students needed to quarantine after potential exposure in April alone so what did they do?
The board's decided to lower the distance for contact tracing below federal and state guidance to 3 feet when positive COVID-19 cases are found among staff and students.

Here: detroitnews.com/story/news/edu…

From @justthefacts85
Indiana: Child under 5 in Tippecanoe County has died from COVID, per health dept

"This tragic occurrence reminds us that COVID can cause serious, even fatal, illness in children."

I need to check for @Theresa_Chapple sad flu comparison. This sucks.

indystar.com/story/news/202…
With COVID-19 still in the picture, here’s how to best prepare your child for hurricane season
Especially after coronavirus pandemic, storm season can bring added anxieties

First reaction what a cluster we can SEE countries doing better.
Second: AFTER?!?

clickorlando.com/weather/hurric…
Finally, bittersweet from India: Techie with a heart of gold takes child in from COVID hit family. They're finding kids sitting in the waiting area of hospitals.

💔

m.timesofindia.com/city/hyderabad…
Every time I start to do #kidsandcovid I see another mind-blowingly bad tweet and I cannot believe this is all real.
Illinois/Missouri Area schools turn to virtual learning as COVID cases in students rise

Smart! Also TIL they border each other so +1 for the pandemic.

P.1 has hit Illinois but I'm unsure where.

fox2now.com/news/area-scho…
The American Academy of Pediatrics is now reporting children used to make up five to ten percent of all new COVID cases. That number is now up to 21%.

We haven't talked about this yet because I could not handle it. I guess smoke blowers would say it's the power of vaccines.
718 students, 94 staff members at Massachusetts schools have COVID

# in this week's report may be lower bc cases are only reported by state if child/staffer was in a school w/in 7 days before testing +. School vacation meant students were not in school
masslive.com/coronavirus/20…
Remembering Week Day: Family of 6 year old Minnesota child who died of COVID-19 complications share story

She liked the color pink.

keloland.com/news/healthbea…
After that, read: Kids across the country are returning to school. (Can you hear the collective sigh of relief from parents everywhere?) Isn’t it great to know that your child can be with their friends again and have a little normalcy during the pandemic?
health.clevelandclinic.org/how-to-help-yo…
To Stop COVID-19 We Need to Track Cases in Children Without Symptoms

A little sanity break.

healthline.com/health-news/to…
Wisconsin: Doctors seeing increased cases of long Covid in children

Good thing kids in Wisconsin don't get COVID (don't get tested for COVID).

UW Health says nearly 470 outbreaks in educational settings are being investigated in the state

Oops

cbs58.com/news/Doctors-s…
Finally 1: Colorado’s K-12 school outbreaks now infecting more students than they did at December peak
Coronavirus outbreaks also rising in child care centers, nursing homes

(Nursing homes?)

210 active outbreaks in schools, the highest number since Dec. 2, when there were 211
Finally 2: on Wednesday, 12 superintendents asked the state health department to end the requirement that students potentially exposed to the virus go home to quarantine.
Finally 3: K-12 schools saw the largest increase in outbreaks over the week, adding 43, followed by nursing homes and child care facilities

Outbreak is 2 or more cases connected to a location or event.
Finally 4: 246 staff members had been infected in the currently active outbreaks, compared to 383 in the outbreaks that were active on Dec. 2

That's with vaccination.

Article: denverpost.com/2021/04/29/col…
Finally for real: As of Dec. 2, 861 kids got #inschoolcovid. As of Wed, nearly 3x as many: 2,347. Possible some of the increase could reflect increased testing, but state epi noted Tuesday that kids ages 11 to 18 accounted for an increasing share of COVID-19 cases in the state.
Coronavirus cases in Colorado are rapidly increasing among middle and high school students, state PH officials said this week, four months after schools began to reopen.

Which they had a big surge prior to that, that they're implying didn't happen.

nytimes.com/live/2021/04/3…
West Virginia: the proportion of cases among people under 20 (we call them youth or kids) has gone from 16 to 26%

wvpublic.org/health-science…

I mean 16% isn't exactly bragging territory.
Utah: 57 students - South Jordan school begins 'test-to-stay' protocol after dozens of students test positive for COVID-19

fox13now.com/news/coronavir…
Massachusetts: DESE reports 43 student COVID cases in New Bedford schools

Has to be #inschoolcovid for these high numbers right? Schools can't be that amazing

"Fun" little graph too.

southcoasttoday.com/story/news/202…
Kansas - I like big cohorts and I cannot lie: Nearly 200 students at Shawnee Mission South High School have been quarantined from playing sports this week after at least three students + for COVID.

"There's no cohorts in baseball!" Tom Hanks prob not

shawneemissionpost.com/2021/04/30/sm-…
Wisconsin’s Multigenerational Homes Face Higher COVID Risk
wpr.org/wisconsins-mul…

Did they say or even posit why? I didn't see it.

About 13% Of Residents Live In Multigenerational Homes, Many Of Them Families Of Color. These Residents Face A Higher Risk Of Infection/Death.
Finally, Biden’s next pandemic challenge: Getting Americans to accept the virus

The challenge for Biden, his team and state HDs will be managing the rolling series of outbreaks possibly driven by more dangerous virus variants.

This needs to be in here.
politico.com/news/2021/04/3…
Sunday night #kidsandcovid See Covid-19 Exposure Risk in Your County and a Guide for Daily Life Near You

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
And this is what's happening, so you won't know that the numbers in your neighborhood or area are higher than other places that are shut down.

And kids? We will talk about when they might be vaccinated. Not how sick they're getting.

Michigan: COVID Upticks Among Kids and Teens: What Parents Should Know

Both kids with and without health conditions can get sick. Yes. All of this we knew but it's good to see it!

And this is actually...pretty well done? I think it may be!

healthblog.uofmhealth.org/childrens-heal…
Kids struggling with long-term COVID-19 effects

“One day in early November, one of his adult front teeth fell out spontaneously with no blood loss," she said.

The reason: vascular damage due to COVID.

That's from @dianaberrent

This has more -
wnem.com/news/kids-stru…
Washington health officials worry about increased COVID-19 counts in kids

In Skagit County, children now have a higher case rate than people over 70. (Mandatory hype: the vaccines are worrrrkkkking!)
(The other shoe drops): Other factors include a resumption of in-person learning, as well as variants of the virus that spread much more easily.

king5.com/mobile/article…
Ontario: COVID-19 outbreak declared at YMCA child care centre

PHU reported 11 new positive on Sunday, with 4 linked to an outbreak, another 2 linked to a separate institutional outbreak, 5 more related to another case

northernontario.ctvnews.ca/mobile/covid-1…
Some schools skip student quarantines

In the northern suburbs of Cincinnati, Superintendent Matt Miller kept school doors open. But the coronavirus kept pushing students out. In the fall semester, he counted 5,172 student quarantines.

washingtonpost.com/education/scho…
Seems like a good time to reflect on the #COVIDisAirborne struggle.

Not to mention the elimination struggle.

Because when a school won't quarantine there's a real lack of understanding of this virus.

Finally, it's Sunday night. Should schools in your area be in person tomorrow?

Use the tweet at the top of tonight to double check.

#COVIDisAirborne #SchoolsSpreadCovid ImageImageImage
Teacher appreciation week. What do you get for people you've sent into small, unventilated spaces with too many other bodies?

Probably meaningless platitudes.

So: I'm sorry. This has been the wrong thing to do. We don't even have hindsight of our hindsight. We just keep going.
You look at stuff like this: why have COVID dashboard if they are never going to close or follow any kind of metrics for opening?

montgomeryschoolsmd.org/coronavirus/da…
Makes a little more sense when you read these bios closely.

news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/quicknotes/thr…

You should not have to do this: "has continued to teach with joy and expertise despite running a temperature for more than 200 consecutive days due to COVID-19."
"Despite running a temperature for more than 200 consecutive days due to COVID-19."

If we had universal healthcare would she have taken a break her body was asking for?
Children Now Account For 22% of New U.S. COVID Cases. Why Is That?

Please read: scpr.org/news/2021/05/0… here
As of April 29, over 3.78 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic.

But we are slowing down (how - I don't know - was there a school break?) a bit to only:

72,000 new child cases were reported.
72,000 kids alone testing positive in our country this week. More than El Salvador has had the entire pandemic.

That's without NYS (NYC reports) and without Texas I believe. I think
3,782,724 total child COVID-19 cases reported, and children represented 13.8% (3,782,724/27,320,708) of all cases

Overall rate: 5,026 cases per 100,000 children in the population

What can you say about people who've forced this upon us for 2 admins? services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-…
We Can Eliminate Covid-19 if We Want To

We are always four to six weeks from being able to do what countries around the world have done

coronavirus.medium.com/we-can-elimina…

Andy Slavitt - remember that guy? Incensed at Trump school policy? Where is he?
Finally, it's been a bad day for people who want to get rid of COVID. Oddly, this is not a popular stance. We are pro-COVID people in the US? Is it because we are afraid we will fail? That's a terrible thought because you may as well pack it all up.

Anyway, herd immunity!
Finally 2: What You Need to Understand About Herd Immunity Now. "The rush to reopen schools has meant that we have taken the group with the lowest level of immunity and the lowest likelihood of complying with COVID safety guidelines and clustered large numbers of them indoors for
extended periods, the conditions most likely to encourage spread of disease."

Yep! That's what we did!

From @rdmorris welcome to #kidsandcovid month nine.

drbobmorris.com/2021/05/what-y…
3.78 million #kidsandcovid and 22.4% of all cases are in kids, 5,026 cases per kids in the population, and I'm turning into the Joker here. Image
So now, kids can't do what they did last summer in the camp where it was safe.

While there are so many with COVID.

This twitch is going to be permanent.

campminder.com/go/camps-and-c…
And for a trip down memory lane, how did camps go last July? With mitigation even? Do I have posts? Indeed I do! And they suck.

And also from last July:



Then: the drama!

Now? The drama! But in the other direction.

These kids can't catch a break.
To summarize from July.
July 30, 2020: 338,982 kids
April 29, 2021: 3,782,724 kids

July: 447 cases per 100,000 children in the population
April: 5,026 cases per 100,000 children

So why wouldn't we eliminate? Oops I mean mitigate. It's like elimination just not as effective.
Oh why not. Let's look at 2 weeks ago.

To summarize:
April 15, 2021: 3,631,189 kids
April 29: 3,782,724 kids

April 15: 4,824 cases per 100,000 children
April 29: 5,026 cases per 100,000 children

2 weeks ago: 20.6%
Now: 22.4% of all new cases
Finally, I started with a screenshot of a NY Mag article - I didn't want to include her/dont know her deal.

You're seeing a lot of odd tweets from liberal anti-maskers? Not sure how to classify people who looked down upon yelling in person but do it from their perch on Twitter.
Finally 2, there's a lot of strings that need to be pulled, associations, connections with a lot of people and their hapless lackies.

But if you feel like someone doesn't have your/loved ones best interests at heart, they most likely don't.

You/yours will pay the consequences.
"Almost 600 children have died from COVID and 200,000 have been hospitalized (as of 6 months ago)."

From @PedsGeekMD



Join me in a little inoculation from ignorance tonight.

See last night for more numbers.
Mmmmhmmmm. Image
Masks are still required in school, but they may be removed once students are in class and seated

Okay, maybe some ignorance, as a little treat.

And that's a heapin' helpin' of (anti) science.

Thread from @WalkerBragman h/t @LazarusLong13

Because ignorance levels are so high, you may need to see your doctor if your levels don't drop in 4 hours, even after reading these threads/tweets. ⬆️⬇️

Thanks @LongDesertTrain for calling it like it is.



What he did was read the study as it was written. Which apparently is not contractually obligated for a contrarian.
CLOSING SCHOOLS REDUCES TRANSMISSION RATES.

From @imgrund

Some colors and stuff. Probably doesn't mean anything. Other than #SchoolsSpreadCovid

I hope @Loretta_Torrago and @LazarusLong13 don't mind me popping this interaction that needs to be kept for posterity here?
I hope everyone screenshots that stuff.

The 1st online pandemic where people choose their own adventure and their own Wonka.
Finally, Long COVID in children: the perspectives of parents and children need to be heard

@LongCovidKids in here

With our almost 4 million cases of #kidsandcovid in the US, where do we hear about this?

We don't. We get told to get kids in school, it's not bad, stop masking.
And with almost 600k dead they have the audacity to think they should be listened to!

bjgp.org/content/71/706…
"Iowa reports today another 129 kids have contracted coronavirus.That pushes the total to 8,934 since January 29, the date when Gov. Reynolds signed SF160 to force schools to offer 100% in-person without providing safety precautions." From @SenatorRobHogg
Infants with higher viral loads? Imagine if this was something that mattered to people here?

Because I think we've had it with these little party poopers.

From @DrZoeHyde
Difference in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Attack Rate Between Children and Adults May Reflect Bias

But @DrZoeHyde is still trying to help kids. TG for people still fighting.

This paper and thread we will probably come back to!

Parents refusing to name other kids for contact tracing.

Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be selfish.

Israel 1114 hospitalized kids and 7 have died. Compare these numbers with ours. This pandemic has been so hard to comprehend for people who think we have done the same as other places.

Arizona: more than 100,000 COVID-19 cases among children.

It’s also one of only 10 states with more than 7,000 cases per 100,000 kids.

Arizona is one of the states with the most COVID-19 cases among kids

ktar.com/story/4381995/…
Top 10 #kidsandcovid per 100,000 kids:

N Dakota 9416.4
Tennessee 8817.2k
S Carolina 8200.2
S Dakota 8179.4
Connecticut 8113.9
Arizona 7588.7
Delaware 7545.7
Wisconsin 7538.0
Rhode Island 7389.2
Minnesota 7130.5

This was more fun on Letterman.
Child COVID Cases Are Highest in These States

Hey - this is good that Newsweek picked this Top 10 info up from the AAP report.

Because I've been posting their stuff for weeks on end with no media. It's too big to ignore but not "deadly" enough to care.

newsweek.com/coronavirus-st…
And remember: For New York, only New York City reported the age distribution of cases. Massachusetts has only released this information for new infections in the two weeks leading up to April 29. Texas reported the age distribution for only 3% of cases.

Imagine the numbers!
Pleas for help in India as COVID-19 leaves children without carers

reuters.com/world/india/pl…

Dammit. Read it if you can.
Indiana: Health Commissioner: Children accounting for more COVID cases, herd immunity unlikely for Allen County

Of course not from school.

wane.com/top-stories/he…
India: Maharashtra Sets Up Child Covid Care Centres As It Preps For 3rd Wave

"The 3rd wave could be deadly for small children below 18. We are in process of making child Covid care centers. Children need different ventilator beds/other medical equipment"

ndtv.com/india-news/mah…
Yale researchers investigate severe COVID-related condition in children

Certainly plenty of #kidsandcovid in Connecticut

This is really interesting - they list some of the things they're considering. Autoimmunity and T cells and gut biomes oh my.

yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/05/0…
Finally, After their 15-year-old daughter died less than 2 days after testing + for COVID, a couple from suburban Illinois is warning other families to remain vigilant in following public health guidance

Can't imagine their night tonight or the next 100.
nbcchicago.com/news/coronavir…
#kidsandcovid I don't know about you but I get super cranky when I see vulnerable beings put at risk. All along it's been old, essential, poor, BIPOC, institutionalized, disabled, then we added kids and now just to be sure, we're going after the most vulnerable of them, too.
Oh not just me - somebody has been on TV a lot, and it's a shame that they've built up a lot of good will for one thing because people buy what you're selling.



And there's some issues with what he's telling Kate at CNN.
Not to pile on but if we can't get a little Mama Grizzly about our most vulnerable people, are we really a society anymore or just a selfishness contest with borders?

Transplant patients and vaccines: Over 1,700 children received transplants in 2020. Currently, over 1,900 children under the age of 18 are on the national transplant waiting list. So 0 to 18 probably 25-40,000 range? From .gov

Is that enough? Do we care?

'I'm exhausted': Parents of medically fragile children feel battered by COVID-19

From when we pretended we cared - November, 2020.

today.com/parents/parent…
Lily was was born extremely prematurely and stayed in the NICU for 8 mos. The micro-preemie spent months on a ventilator, which left her lungs permanently scarred. Mom said any exposure to COVID, could be deadly for her immunocompromised daughter.

Would you wear a mask for her? Image
In 2017, U.S. News & World Report estimated that 3 million children in the United States are considered medically fragile or medically complex, meaning they have ongoing, serious medical issues that can require hospitalization or frequent care.

Going backwards is not the answer.
About 6,000 babies with Down syndrome are born in the US each year. So about 120,000 people under 20.

Guess who has a rough time with COVID? Yeah.

Do you know how you can tell if the adult you see wearing a mask has a kid at home with DS?

You can't.
yalemedicine.org/news/down-synd…
So imagine what parents must think and feel when they see, hear, about all these people wanting to take of their masks - outside was one thing - but INSIDE?! As some return to normal? COVID isn't the flu. We've ridiculed people for that. Masks work. Ridiculed. And it's airborne!
Here:

Here:

Here (about 10,500 children in the United States under the age of 15 will be diagnosed with cancer in 2021):

Here:
Finally 1, in some good news - remember Fiona? She's a little girl with Spina Bifida who got COVID.

Here's a couple of old tweets:

Finally, 2: Michigan baby girl making progress in fight against COVID-19

Fiona!!!

After spending a month in the PICU in Ann Arbor, 1.5-year-old Fiona Bell is COVID free and off the ventilator.

Fiona’s mom Andrea says now she’s recovering in moderate care at the hospital.
Finally 3: “COVID really did a lot of damage [to] her lungs. So she’s in a great spot right now, but still has a long way to go

How do you know the health status of those you meet indoors, or their loved ones? You don't.

Would you wear a mask for her?
abc12.com/2021/05/07/mic… Image
Happy Mother's day #kidsandcovid

Untold moms, grandma's, aunts, other motherly figures lost. And about 600 moms have lost a child. More are learning what it's like to have a child with a disability.

We don't talk #LongCovid here much so @LongCovidKids is int'l so please follow
Remote Kindergarten During Covid ‘Could Impact This Generation of Kids for Their Lifetime’

Kindergartners normally learn skills valuable for the rest of their education; an estimated 450k children may miss the grade this year
wsj.com/articles/remot…
Who wrote this Leo Buscaglia?
COVID-19 crisis may lead to a second Greatest Generation

Because if we remember - those kids went through:
🗺️ WWI
😷 Pandemic
💰 Great Depression
🗺️ WWII
loganbanner.com/opinion/diane-…
Texas: In Travis County between March and April, confirmed COVID-19 cases among children increased at a faster rate than any other age group. 

Don't want to break it to anyone but COVID isn't done yet. Check that chart for all ages.

kxan.com/investigations… Image
California: Over 60 migrant children held at California facilities treated for COVID

Fifty-five children at the Long Beach Convention Center tested positive.

Asymptomatic or mild only - good thing they can't transmit. Sarcasm.

abcnews.go.com/US/60-migrant-…
People who lived with a child who did in-person learning in preschool through 12th grade were about 38% more likely to report having COVID-19 symptoms like a fever, cough, or difficulty breathing, compared to those who had a child in remote learning.

verywellhealth.com/covid-19-schoo…
MISC: 24 Idaho children have experienced rare COVID syndrome. Although the dangerous and sometimes deadly syndrome caused at least 1 child to be airlifted out of state for a heart transplant, MIS-C case count is much lower than nearby Wa (47) and Ca (300+) idahostatesman.com/news/coronavir…
Finally, Sunday night - is your school district in person tomorrow? Should it be?

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m… Image
#kidsandcovid for tonight - just - families, school folks, anyone around kids there were a lot of people flying this weekend. Most since pandemic began. And locally I'm sure your restaurants were as packed as the one I drove past.

"also maybe consider how many people unvaccinated kids can infect (and how many those people infect, and so forth)"

Why start now! /s

Thread from @MDaware
"We find robust evidence that reopening Texas schools gradually but substantially accelerated the community spread of COVID-19"

Great to have robust evidence!!! In addition to tons of other info. Now you just need a media star to get on CNN and Fox.
“I think most of us would have expected that really symptomatic kids with acute COVID were the ones that were going to have symptoms for months, and that is just not what we're seeing.”

Sadly, this seemed apparent early didn't it? Tell me if no!

I never thought we'd have to defend kids (for almost 10 months) from getting COVID. Now kids more at risk for COVID?

Here's a great thread from @Idontma48200911 to read and share.

The same folks who will say "well I guess common sense isn't that common" wants more proof about #SchoolsSpreadCovid it's plain as the nose on Humpty's face.



So here is @MaggieEThornton doing good things for us with a thread.

(Still so sad he's gone)
And I may be a simple person but how do you hold both concepts of transmission/prevention and these other ideas together without them fighting?


Huh?
Finally, this was so sad and it deserves so much attention. "The loss important to understand this year, the most critical loss, is not learning loss. It involves the loss many children are facing after losing a mom or dad..."
From @NancyEBailey1
Pls share
"French prime Minister admits on tv that what works best to slow pandemic is closing schools"



I've used this GIF before because the truth is out there.
Michigan: 176 infected in new COVID outbreaks at 57 schools May 10 school outbreak report

So that's a day?

K-12 schools week: 1,860 staff and students in ongoing outbreaks at 254 clusters pre-K through HS. Last week: 1,993/240 clusters.

From @JehaneDeux
Link to PDF of Texas study:

Can anyone tell me if it's getting any attention? Is it more Mississippi seroprevalence or Wisconsin?
Doctors Watch Warily as Severe Covid Infections Target Kids

While rare, serious illness linked to Covid-19 in children has pediatric researchers studying variants

Investigating whether Covid is becoming more severe for children now that variants are causing localized flare-ups
"The big concern is that we’ve left a whole population of children unprotected”

“I think that’s a really important question: Does B.1.1.7  cause more MIS-C?”

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Covid-19 Cases Among Youngest Surpass 65+

Rate of cases per 100,000 on May 1

From that link above. Image
Colorado: COVID cases among children increasing, new variant found in Mesa County

(That variant: The B11617.2 variant is one of the variants that was first identified in India)

State data showing children 0-19 making up 26% of new cases last week.

kdvr.com/news/coronavir… ImageImageImage
Dr. Offit: If you can protect children from Covid 'you should do that'

Very short and good interview with Dr. Offit from CHOP.

news.yahoo.com/dr-offit-prote…
5-year-old Eos Teran is a normal child, but just over a month ago, she almost died from complications tied to a seemingly harmless COVID-19 case.

Normal. 😬 Anyway!

Have they determined genetic predisposition?!? See article.

wsbt.com/news/coronavir…
Finally, The Latest: S.C. Gov Orders Opt Out for Child Mask Wearing

South Carolina Gov. McMaster has issued an executive order allowing parents to opt their children out of wearing masks in public schools.

usnews.com/news/health-ne…

Where is this coming from? #COVIDisAirborne?
Ugh. Looked at last night's post. Ixnay on the askmay? Is that 🐖 Latin? Anyway, @GYamey is making the connections we all need to be aware of.

There's also deep pockets behind this for sure.

Best response ever.

The kids will be okay.

Just don't let them get COVID.

Greenville, SC - last night's last tweet - getting rid of the mask mandate. Can't say it better than this:
After almost ten months of this thread would you say the risk to kids from COVID is zero? Or are you not just waking up from a 2 year coma?

Two vaccines at once for kids or split them up? Some health experts at the ACIP hearing disagreed with changing the guidelines, saying there wasn’t enough data yet to make this recommendation.

I separate my dog's distemper from other shots. Yes, 2 trips.
wfaa.com/mobile/article…
North Carolina: Jamestown child center responds to recent COVID-19 cases

Still going.

greensboro.com/news/local/edu…
La Vernia High School closes after student tests positive for COVID after prom

foxsanantonio.com/news/local/la-…

Prom. I guess if you don't understand/care - and we've been horrible at educating - the multitude of places COVID goes in the body you go to prom?
West Virginia: Positive COVID cases identified among school staff, students in North Central WV

Teachers vaccinated? Additionally, 187 students and four staff members were instructed to quarantine as a result of exposure to positive individuals.
wvnews.com/news/wvnews/po…
Pennsylvania: Stopping the spread: Western Beaver High School closes due to outbreak of COVID-19

Determined that several students have tested positive and several others (have been) deemed close contacts.

Then how they were complying with guidelines and I think wow!
"Shutting down in-person instruction is not going to solve the problem because students are getting together outside of school. When they're in the building, they have to follow the protocols. Now that they're home all day, I don't know what protocols they're following..."
Almost there! "He said gatherings outside of school and close contact during extracurricular activities are to blame for the outbreak." 

"Certainly, we cannot attribute any of the contact to being in school during the academic days," he said.
Though they hosted an indoor prom on April 30 where students were masked but not socially distanced, and the school's production of "Once on this Island," (students also masked but not socially distanced) ran this past weekend, the outbreak is not the result of of a single event.
According to the district's website, the high school moved to a virtual model in early April based on transmission levels and quarantine numbers, and again April 28 and 29, after COVID-positive cases also associated with a variety of extracurricular activities climbed.
According to an April 27 letter to parents, students associated with those activities were put on a quarantine list, but were permitted to participate in the musical and the prom if they could provide a - COVID PCR test* and were not exhibiting symptoms. 

*Which is a snapshot.
Yeah - weird!

Finally, last week, Massachusetts:
604 students, 65 staff members positive for COVID in Massachusetts schools in past week

Tired of this. We have so many kids walking around with who knows what will happen.
Tweet:

Article:
masslive.com/coronavirus/20…
Big day today for everyone not under 12, sick, disabled, unable to get vaccinated, for whom the vaccine won't work, who are on certain medications, poor, workers!

Aka no one any of the big thinkers at vax or mask knows apparently.

There are tons of examples that need to go in this thread.

Another:

Are any of these kids? Yeah millions of them.

Again, millions of kids included.

And the way this was done, and how they think people act? Are they aliens. I'm just asking questions.



Because there's really no other explanation.
Again - look at the list - she's absolutely right.

Do people know this?

Because here is a thread w/estimates that *22 million* kids have had COVID. In the US.

The narrative addressed throughout the almost 10 mos of this thread - that kids don't get it and it's not bad if they do - contributed to today. H/t @CoastalBendBern
22 million kids in the US estimated to have had COVID. No one notices it.

How could it get worse here? We just keep working to find out.

Two things in this pandemic - act fast to stop, and observe and wait to start - for greater success. And nope.

We won. It's over. 🙄
I had posts bookmarked and stories to go but I'm going to take a 2nd night off in almost 10 mos. Let's think about people who can't take a night off and who are now more at risk. Kids under 12, particularly kids that are medically vulnerable. At least it's only 10s of millions /s
#kidsandcovid Iowa advises schools, child care centers to drop mask mandates as COVID pandemic eases

(Now check the next tweet from @SenatorRobHogg)

msn.com/en-us/news/us/…
"Iowa reports that 41 more kids under age 18 have contracted coronavirus, pushing the total to 9,485 since January 29, the date when Gov. Reynolds signed SF160 to force schools to offer 100% in-person without providing safety precautions."

WHO urges rich countries to delay child COVID vaccinations and donate doses

Well guess we won't be supporting that anymore because of the mask thing. Were they that clever to use it as leverage for vaccine hoarding? Or too much credit?

euronews.com/2021/05/15/who…
Blind Delhi parents lose only child to Covid-19; couple mourn death of 5-month-old 'Pari'

This was the second time in two days that Singh was burying a child so young.

Tragic. And we have people posting about getting addtl vaccines.

Read more at: deccanherald.com/national/north…
It's OK for your child to get the COVID vaccine alongside other vaccines, CDC expert says

Dog person on Twitter says that's really not something you should do.
wcvb.com/article/cdc-co…

After this week who do you trust more?
What The New Mask Guidance Means For Unvaccinated Kids — And Their Parents

I'm sure we can approve those vaccines faster since they're experimenting in the real world now right?

Ohhhh we can all see it.

npr.org/sections/coron…
'What if it was your kid?': Parents of young children feel forgotten as CDC loosens mask restrictions

msn.com/en-us/news/us/…

Because there's plenty of company for those kids here who are long forgotten. And a lot of kids!
That is a lot of kids! I'm sure the CDC knew the numbers. Image
And I'm super sure they thought of kids who on top of not being able to be vaccinated, are high risk.

Finally, we need to fight for people we don't know.

600,000 people dead - our country failed them from start to now, and continues to make mistakes that make rational people wonder if they're watching the same pandemic.

Kids traumatized by our response to it - see New Zealand, Atlantic Canada, etc.

Still with that, I feel guilty that I'm vaccinated, that we have people seeking additional vaxs, instead of controlling the pandemic through NPIs we are not helping others. Again, selfish behavior will boomerang.

Follow @GYamey for stuff on this.
Then again, rates of COVID-19 associated hospitalizations in children ages 5 to 17 have doubled since mid-March.

But if we did more, we know this would stop.

But because we've never tried, we think we can't. And that's scary if your govt believes that

A blue check prediction! I bet as soon as you read this you'll have a list of names in your head! Masks masks masks!

Dartford boy, 6, was 'playing normally' hours before he was hospitalised w/rare COVID complication

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Around 200 British kids have been in intensive care with MISC (PIMS there).

Huh. They put a warning on it. H/t @jmcrookston
kentlive.news/news/kent-news…
Flu this year, 1 child death, which so awful for that family. My brain says COVID way more contagious than flu since same measures stopped flu/didn't stop COv? Right?

188 in 2019-2020
282 - H1N1
This year 306 deaths COV from 43 states, NYC (only not NYS), PR and GU
MISC-C 35 Image
That flu info reminded me of @dgurdasani1 tweet.

I think the we in "we're all in this together" is broken into groups. Each of us thinks the others are bananas. History will tell the tale (we're right unless maximum death, suffering is the best metric).
Here's something for you all to relate to from @NjbBari3 still true today.

"I never thought I would spend a whole year trying to tell humans to care for and protect children from an unknown brand new disease, that does not appear to be inconsequential."
Finally, is your school in person tomorrow? Should it be?

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m… Image
So it's been quite a week hasn't it? Today has been increasingly bad news with Governor announcements. If you're in a state that's not going ape💩 bananas, good! And if you're not in the US, seriously, good job on the birth to your folks!

Something good:
Why Is Covid Killing So Many Young Children in Brazil? Doctors Are Baffled

First this was previously reported. Second, why? It's COVID. It's not here to make friends. It's like every reality show villain.

Anyway, hospitals/care.

nytimes.com/2021/05/16/wor…
Brazil recorded 832 deaths in children below 6, while the US had 241 deaths in kids of all ages.

Had to add this one because it's so repugnant.

businessinsider.com/brazil-covid-1…
242: Illinois - PBL high school junior dies from COVID-19 complications

How awful. Please tell me people still care about this?

The parents - imagine it. He was autistic and he loved school.

wcia.com/news/pbl-high-…
Indiana: A new record of students testing positive for COVID-19 was reported at Anderson Schools for the first two weeks of May.

Well I'm sure it'll only get better from here. 😒 Not if you're under 12 or in another country. But for the rest of us.
heraldbulletin.com/news/record-nu…
NYC schools Pediatrics paper, and a thread by @DGBassani

Do we do any of this anymore?

Kids made out pretty well - that's good! Staff not so much.

Well, it's only a highly contagious multi-system virus. And post-viral stuff sometimes.

The new B1617 strain, commonly known as the double-mutant variant of the coronavirus first detected in India, appears to affect younger children more.

*Health Minister Ong Ye Kung says this is why schools are taking a more cautious approach.*

11-15% of kids can end up with #LongCOVID

I am not sure that's the number I've seen elsewhere but great thread here from way back in April 2021, almost 30 years ago.

This is true.

Finally, it's a bad day, and you did it. You made it through without getting banned (maybe shadow banned but hey)! You have a new collection mask take screenshots, and if anyone finds your phone, they will worry.

Do you ever wonder what people 100 years from now will say? 😐
#kidsandcovid The Learning Point #COVID19 cluster in Singapore has grown to 20 cases, including 12 students. And is this what contact tracing looks like?

Because our contract tracing is more this

(What is this GIF from)
3,903,706 total child COVID-19 cases reported, and children represented 14.0% (3,903,706/27,825,369) of all cases

Or 22 million depending on source but almost 4 million is nothing to sneeze at.
Nearly 49,000 new child cases were reported last week. This marks the lowest number of new weekly cases since late-October.

49 states - not Texas, and only NYC (not NYS) plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam

Get your track shoes on for the victory lap I guess.
Overall rate: 5,187 cases per 100,000 children in the population. That's more /100k than the State of Maine.

Over two weeks, 4/29/21-5/13/21, there was a 3% increase in the cumulated number of child COVID-19 cases (120,982 new cases (3,782,724 to 3,903,706))
To summarize - COVID numbers for kids thus far
7/30/20: 338,982 kids
April 15/21: 3,631,189 kids
May 13/21: 3,903,706 kids

July: 447 cases per 100,000 children in the population
April: 4,824 cases per 100,000 children
May: 5,187 cases per 100,000 children

This is 🤬 nuts right?
24%. For the week ending May 13, children were 24.0% of new reported weekly COVID-19 cases.

14% for the entire pandemic.

There's something that we have completely ignored here and it will come back to bite these kids.

Finally, "Texas Children's Hospital has cared for more than 150 patients with a terrible inflammatory condition linked to Covid, called MIS-C Yet the CDC has tallied fewer than 100 cases of MIS-C in the whole state"

We knew this here.
H/t @LastGreatAct

CDC MISC numbers -

cdc.gov/mis-c/cases/in…
#kidsandcovid
Speaking of course of the NYMag article (that I won't link yet) to which is a bunch of words that I remember reading last year when orange man bad. I'll be looking forward to rebuttals but I don't have it in me other than to say what a dump.

Just watch for who shares it.
"There are many reasons why kids should receive the Covid vaccine . For me professionally the prevention of MIS-C is at the top of that list."

Via @Kidsdoc1Rick

This was March - we saw it was worse last night in the Houston article.


🤓
"*** Thread: *** Pseudo-experts mangling child suicide data for political purposes."

This has been one of the more shameful examples of people using lies to promote their selfish wants.

From @tylerblack32 via @beansprouts_mom
55 New Coronavirus Outbreaks Reported In Michigan Schools

Jeez, did the President mention that while he was in Michigan? Or do we not ask him questions about that?
H/t @kgopinion
The schools in Canada are magical and COVID zones too. Not by logic, common sense, data of course.



H/t @beansprouts_mom Thanks!
Canadian Long Covid Kids website:

longcovidcanada.ca/kids-and-covid/

H/t @CMarieHs
Covid Fears Keep Many Latino Kids out of Classrooms

kff.org/coronavirus-co…

I love to see how these families care about each other. It's a good lesson - watch out for each other if you live in a country where no one else will that's supposed to.
Rhode Island - how about we don't test these kids? That's one way to eliminate the virus!



from @maya_chavez_
Finally, DeSoto County child dies from COVID-19

4 years old.

I don't know. Today is 10 months of this thread and why hasn't anyone taken action in all this time, as has been done elsewhere? A 4 year old is gone forever because no one will do anything.
Twelve juveniles have died from COVID-19, according to the DOH per article. Video different.

In one state. A big state! But pardon me for wondering if counts are low for kids x50 states.

Also Bradley in this video is adorable and grandma speaks sense.

nbc-2.com/news/health/co…
#kidsandcovid and this thread needs to go in here about COVID cases in Texas and Florida.

Also Florida tonight saying they'll be closing down some testing sites.

And last night's post on not testing in RI.

Studies show that up to 40% of children in Italy and approximately 15-20% of children in England are experiencing “long-haul” COVID-19 symptoms.

Although it is not yet clear how many children in the U.S. have been affected by long-COVID (GIF)

hackensackmeridianhealth.org/HealthU/2021/0… for story
If you believe that something isn’t right with their child, you shouldn’t give up until you find the answers you need “It can be hard to get someone to believe you, so be persistent,” says Dr. Clouser.
Avoid sleepovers, outdoor play dates OK: Tips to protect unvaccinated children from COVID-19

mlive.com/news/grand-rap…

Literal life hacks. After being in some meetings today no one is thinking that we haven't gone back to normal already.
Children Now Making Up Majority of Chicago's Daily COVID Cases: Top Doc

nbcchicago.com/news/local/chi…

Children in the youngest age range, however, have reported no hospitalizations or deaths with recent cases, according to the city's data from the last seven days
Colorado: With kids age 11-17 leading in COVID-19 cases, Polis urges families to vaccinate children

So their younger siblings have a chance to get the virus? Because it doesn't seem like you are getting the prevention message.

coloradoan.com/story/news/202…
On Thursday morning, schools across Iowa rescinded mask requirements to comply with the law, if they hadn't done so earlier. Last week, the Iowa Department of Public Health advised schools and child care centers to drop the requirement.  

amestrib.com/story/news/pol…
Finally, kind of good? Petersburg will start testing public-school students for COVID-19 on May 25
As part of the Increased Community Access to Testing (ICATT) Program
progress-index.com/story/news/edu…

One of 27 schools. 😬 In the US.
Me tonight - lots of tweets just no ability to put them in a cohesive order for #kidsandcovid.
600,000 children, ages 12-15, have received their first Covid-19 vaccine dose

More than 17 million children in this age group are eligible for vaccination.

nbcnews.com/health/health-…
"What Activities Can Unvaccinated Children Do? Advice From 828 Experts.

This phase of the pandemic, when adults can be vaccinated but young children cannot, is confusing for many families."

I look around Twitter* and see clarity from people protecting their kids. #notalltwitter
“Huge problem here. The onus is now on children (and parents) to deal with and overcome problems generated from adults who refuse to get vaccinated (and likely won’t wear masks anymore).”

Alan Kinlaw, assistant professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Huh!
“With my unvaccinated children, we will not be socializing maskless indoors w other families w kids. My kids go to school and day care, and I am not willing to risk introducing Covid in those settings due to our family’s socialization activities.”

As always the answer:

@Winter
“I would not let my kids be in crowds of strangers who were not wearing masks, like in a crowded pool. I would ask them to wear a mask with other unvaccinated people, or keep distance when eating.”

Ryan Carnahan, professor of epidemiology, University of Iowa
Some up and down but here is the link
nytimes.com/2021/05/21/ups… w/more graphs.

I love how they say well, epis are a very cautious group.

Like we asked the alligator specialists about teasing alligators and you will be shocked by how scared they are of gators!

It's called a hint. ImageImageImageImage
Finally, Japan, a child dies, not from COVID but because their HC system is overwhelmed.

Child in critical condition could not find a pediatric hospital bc they were all full, according to a paramedic. The child later died, he said.
😞
#NoOlympicsAnywhere
marketwatch.com/story/with-the…
#KidsandCovid: why are some countries seeing more cases – and deaths?

The perceived wisdom has been that children do not suffer severely from the virus. Yet they are now in Brazil, Indonesia and India

I'd like to know our numbers, thinking back to the Texas MISC article.
"One is that diagnosis of Covid-19 in children is coming too late, when children are already severely unwell and treatment is more difficult.

“There is a culture of ‘there is no risk for children’, so physicians don’t think in terms of Covid-19,” she says."

Sound familiar?
So lots of reasons, many of them that you see here in BIPOC households (e.g. invisible).

Plus the guilt of knowing HCW in other countries are not yet vaccinated.

theguardian.com/world/2021/may…
When CDC issued its new mask guidance last week, it didn't include guidance to vaxxed parents who have unvaccinated children, leaving many parents confused about what to do.

Ohhhh! This is the counter to the more careful NYT thing. Dr. Wen prevaricates.

cnn.com/2021/05/22/us/…
Sick Student Denied Access to School Nurse Later Tests Positive for COVID-19

Teacher disciplined after denying student access to school nurse
nbcdfw.com/news/local/car…

Irving ISD said they did contract tracing in the classroom and no other students tested positive.

Sure.
Wisconsin: Prom spoiled for students after positive COVID-19 tests before dance this weekend

Must read for the quotes.

wisn.com/article/prom-s…
407 At Massachusetts Schools Test Positive For COVID-19 In Last Week

This is lower!

However, in other countries their PH would be having a fit over that many cases.

Not here. We are thrilled. Overton window shifted.

boston.cbslocal.com/2021/05/21/mas…
Washington State: Three Orcas students test positive for COVID-19; follow-up test confirms
islandssounder.com/news/three-orc…
Me misreading: oh no, the whales!

Then realizing - just more kids donating their bodies to science.
Finally, Texas: Elementary celebrates student's life who died days after testing positive for COVID-19

Makenzie Gongora would have turned 10 years old this week.

Gongora died in early February, just three months shy of her birthday.

1/3
After her former classmates finished their STAAR testing, they focused on decorating pinwheels with messages for Makenzie and placed them outside campus near a giant "Happy Birthday" sign.

foxsanantonio.com/news/local/ele…

2/3
Makenzie loved the mermaid color scheme, especially green, and adored her dog, Jaimason.

Anyone wanting to honor her memory and love for animals is asked to donate to SNIPSA in her name.

3/3
snipsa.org
I'll just sit quietly in my glass house and watch what other countries are doing - that people are addressing - that we are largely silent on outside a few groups and people.

#kidsandcovid and lest we forget:



I was just looking - Australia is about 4 million or so less people than Texas and 910 people have died there. In Texas 51,457 have. Covid messed with Texas. It's so sad. From worldometers.
New studies show 'Long COVID' increasing in kids

@DrAngelaCDunn said children are the "new vulnerable" as mask mandates in schools end and mass vaccinations in young kids remain distant.

Yep.

Now in the US, I think associated with @LongCovidKids is @LckUsa! Find our data haha!
So happy to welcome @LckUsa (maybe follow them?) I forgot the link.

kutv.com/news/local/new…
Is the link.
Also in Utah - no masks for kids - the mask mandate will end early.

Keep those kids infected and infecting.

if this is truly about the wellbeing of children --



I wish I still had faith in people.
So much going on in the UK with their data. Everyone on the edge of their seats. School and kid information as well.



They've seemingly got some opposition to their leadership. Good to see the fight this far into it.
"Schools appear to be playing an important role in the spread of the Indian variant (B.1.617.2) in the UK." From @DrZoeHyde and @rajah_mich

Risks for unvaccinated kids and their families. This could be helpful for families.

Also love there is no green for let's goooo!

From @KashPrime based on the NYT info from a few nights ago. Or last night. Blur! Anyway, be like an ED DR!

Dr. Corsi thread! "we should pay much more attention to providing healthy ventilation in schools coupled w/ proper filtration and source reduction, whether in times of pandemic or not. Just Do It!"

Dismal and hopeful all in one:

Me reading the math:
"Rapid school reopenings may have led to thousands of COVID cases, hundreds of deaths in Texas" via @RioSlade

File this under mission accomplished.



Because this seems to be the idea. Or maybe they're just really bad at their one job: protecting citizens
Finally, pointlessly: Is your county ready for schools to open?

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…

And will they have masks, or is your district in the mask free CDC RCT? Unofficial of course. Image
MISC: Six months after they were discharged from the hospital, only one child still had systemic inflammation, just two children had heart abnormalities and six children had gastrointestinal symptoms. All but one child were able to resume school, either virtually or in person.
MISC: Still, 18 of the children were experiencing muscle weakness and fatigue, scoring in the bottom 3 percent for their age and sex on the six-minute walking test, a standard test of endurance and aerobic capacity.
MISC: And 15 children were experiencing emotional difficulties like anxiety or severe mood changes, according to questionnaires answered by either the parents or the children.
MISC: In the United States, 3,742 young people age 20 and under have developed the syndrome, and 35 have died, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

*vastly undercounted* for that: spokesman.com/stories/2021/m…
A major study of long-term outcomes has already recruited 600 children and will follow them for five years, according to a leader of that effort, Dr. Jane Newburger, Boston Children’s Hospital.

All: nytimes.com/2021/05/24/hea…
MISC, initially thought to be Kawasaki, and took everyone by surprise.

And yet -

The total number of pediatric SARS-CoV-2 infections and the risk of severe cases were both frankly greater than initially calculated. They talk about October AAP numbers.

MISC: This narrative review summarizes the current knowledge of this disease.

Who saw it first/noticed? UK
The authors looked at MISC, and searched Kawasaki disease, toxic shock syndrome, macrophage activation syndrome.

It's possible incidence of MIS-C is significantly higher. Lack of clinical awareness/dx may have led to some cases being overlooked. .
Moreover, diagnostic criteria have been based on clinical manifestations in children hospitalized with severe disease

More here: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
H/t @jmcrookston
Can they say this? Do we know this? Is this "the science?" MUSC doctors say COVID vax protect against MIS-C

Oh they *FEEL* confident.
Doctors at MUSC feel confident that the COVID-19 vaccine can also protect against MISC. They are urging parents to get children vaccinated.
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has already treated 28 children with MIS-C, 3 were placed on life support. They ranged from 18 months to 21 years.

<eye twitches>

counton2.com/news/musc-doct…
New Jersey: 116 New Jersey children aged 1 to 18 have been diagnosed with pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MISC). Four of those cases were reported in Camden County, tied with Cumberland and Monmouth Counties for third-least in the state.

What are our real numbers?
PS #inschoolcovid in New Jersey:
Since August 1, 2020, 270 COVID outbreaks encompassing 1,198 individual cases have been traced to schools in all 21 New Jersey counties. In Camden County, 17 outbreaks have been linked to 76 cases, 5th most in the state.
njpen.com/coronavirus-up…
Finally 1, of 508 MISC-C cases in California, 21 have resulted in deaths, including 2 in L.A. County.

Again the vaccine/MISC claim - see finally 2 why concerned - if there's evidence, show it.

And 508 with 21 deaths? I'm amazed this isn't a bigger story.
latimes.com/california/sto…
Finally 2, so with the articles and anonymous doctors and officials being quoted as saying that the vaccine will cover MISC (and I'm not saying it won't or not to vax - I just want the receipts), here is a thread from @dgurdasani1 about being transparent:

#kidsandcovid Teen workers: After enduring verbal abuse, ducking bowling shoes thrown, dealing w/vandalism including damage to video games, a pitcher of beer hurled at the bldg, the owners of a Waukee bowling alley backed off mask policy.

We treasure kids
amp.desmoinesregister.com/amp/7421561002…
Right-wing Doctors Are Suing To Block COVID Vaccine for Kids

The group was founded by Capitol insurrectionist Simone Gold.

They're pro-vaccine but not *this* vaccine.

Maybe the media, etc, shouldn't have minimized COVID so much?

motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
In fact, this questionable piece even says that: The challenge will be not to reassure parents about very low risks but to convince them to get their children vaccinated, to drive that low risk down even more.

Should always pivot to the truth.
"If you stop going into stores because you're terrified you'll run into an unmasked person, that's probably overreacting," says Gr*tchen Ch*pman, a psychology professor who studies health conundrums like this at CMU.

Is she a risk analyst?
npr.org/sections/healt…
"Enjoy"
Masks off: After Backlash, New York State Changes COVID-19 Child Care Guidance

wshu.org/post/after-bac…
Kids under 2? “No masks, but they're not at super high risk of getting infected,” Jh* said.

The disease “for kids in general is milder than the flu,” Jha said. “My general feeling on this is we can't stress excessively about kids."

providencejournal.com/story/news/cor…
Why did I click.
Finally, Texas: Immigrant boy under 10 fighting cancer, liver disease dies from COVID-19 in Nueces County

May the next world be an easier one for this poor child.

msn.com/en-us/health/m…
After 10 MONTHS of this thread, 17 mos of the pandemic, I bring you one of the most chilling things I've seen typed - after all we have learned. Reminiscent of The Shining typewriter scene, it will bring you the same feeling of horror.

#COVIDisAirborne

That previous tweet - for #kidsandcovid ImageImage
Looking @ last night: media, esp. since Nov, & others have said COVID in kids is nothing to be worried about + schools are safe.

School re-opening people, GBD types, anti-vax latch on, push this message.

Now we want families to vax their kids. Surprised they may not want to?
At the same time the vaccines have been sold as foolproof, so when you say your child should be vaccinated to protect others, the answer is, well, you're vaxxed, why do they need to be.

Our messaging really was not coordinated.
A thread on UK schools, unmasking, their numbers and tracking.

It seems more centralized there somehow. Or something. I hope people had a chance to listen to the conversation in Twitter spaces or whatever after all that went on there today.

Sanity.

Here's why schools are on alert over new coronavirus variants

Complexities of the COVID‐19 vaccine and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children

This kind of inflammatory risk makes vaccine development particularly challenging in the pediatric population. If the vaccine is able to induce this type of antibody response, then it would
potentially place otherwise healthy children at risk of severe outcome following vaccination intended to prevent illness from SARS‐CoV‐2

Comments good too. Check @fitterhappierAJ
Lots of #kidsandcovid all over today. Here's Canada in a few provinces.

Not Atlantic Canada. They're sitting relatively pretty compared to the rest of us in the Americas.

Final few tweets - Dr. Drosten study. Viral loads & est. levels of infectiousness

Viral loads were found to be lowest in very young children (0 to 5 years). Levels started at approximately 800,000 copies of the viral genome, increased with age, and approached adult levels in
older children and adolescents."

Ah ha you say! Not so fast!

“While these numbers look very different at first glance, it is crucial to remember that viral load results are shown on a logarithmic scale,” says Prof. Drosten.
“The differences in viral loads found in the youngest children are, in fact, barely below threshold at which we would normally consider them clinically relevant. Crucially, one also has to understand how we arrive at these values/take this into account when interpreting them.”
"My initial assumption, that all age groups have roughly the same level of infectivity, has been confirmed, both by this and by other studies.” 

Added info in images because 😬 why did we get rid of masks again?

charite.de/en/service/pre… ImageImage
Also dropping this here because it is a question in search of answers.

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