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14 Aug, 8 tweets, 3 min read
📍“Zero ICU beds left for children” judge @clayjenkins says. "That means if your child's in a car wreck, if your child has something & needs an ICU bed, or more likely if they have COVID and need an ICU bed—we don't have one. ➡️Your child will wait for another child to die” 😢 🧵
2) 2The judge added no ICU beds have been available for children for at least 24 hours. The Texas Department of State Health Services told CNN the shortage of pediatric ICU beds is related to a shortage in medical staff. abc13.com/dallas-county-…
3) "Hospitals are licensed for a specific number of beds and most hospitals regularly staff fewer beds than they are licensed for. With the increase in COVID cases, hospitals are experiencing a shortage of people to staff the beds that they are licensed for”
4) the above situation is in Dallas Texas. But the crisis of pediatric hospitalizations is real nationwide - we are now at an all time high hospital admissions for kids!!!
5) meanwhile in Texas under Ted Cruz…
6) How bad is the hospitalization crisis in Texas??? 5x in one month.
7) Texas nursing homes possibly hit even harder.
8) so many reasonably preventable deaths in Texas and Florida. 70k preventable hospitalizations and 4700 deaths minimum. See Yale study.

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16 Aug
⚠️Record pediatric hospitalization trajectory—surpassing winter pandemic peak. And this is August, historically the lowest season for pediatric hospitalizations. #DeltaVariant surge will worsen for kids.🧵

HT @jeremyfaust @bhrenton @kmpanthagani #COVID19
2) “Perhaps more alarming than the daily hospitalizations is the magnitude of the rise in recent weeks. Obviously we cannot predict whether this worrisome trend in pediatric hospitalizations will continue... But we must not ignore it.” says @jeremyfaust insidemedicine.bulletin.com/23706803963971… Image
3) This is also why teachers around the country and the world are worried about return to school when kids under 12 aren’t vaccinated and many places don’t have mask mandates.
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16 Aug
Sobbing teacher—“We are trying to protect our students from a mass shooting that we know is coming & cannot do anything about except [people don’t agree on masks to] stop the onslaught of students & staff who are likely to get sick—and that makes me sick”😢
2) Teachers are now actively discussing how to find “affordable attorneys so that they can make a will” (if they die) 🔥 ImageImage
3) More deep questions— “If I die, who’s going to take care of my children? And if I end up in a hospital, how am I going to pay those bills? And if I give #COVID to my students or my own children, and they die, how am I going to live with that?” 😢 Image
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16 Aug
My heart breaks for the people of Afghanistan. But some are telling me to “stay in my lane”. Ummmm, did your parents survive China’s Cultural Revolution (millions died)? Did your grandparents barely escape the Rape of Nanjing (300k deaths)? The evacuation of refugees is personal!
2) p.s. one has a right and obligation to comment on and humanitarian struggle. And to advocate saving of lives out of basic human decency. People can disagree on course of action to save lives, but ignoring / downplaying humanitarian crisis is not okay.
3) Similarly, there are many causes of Yemen’s famine crises. But advocating for children and human welfare is never outside of anyone’s lane, regardless of your background. In fact, privileged folks should be more engaged because “great privilege comes with great responsibility”
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16 Aug
This could become Fall of Saigon 2.0 or worse — the Fall of Kabul and the massive throngs of people trying to flee at Kabul Airport. Can’t blame them. Where are the international support to send passenger jets to airlift them all out?! #Kabul

2) You know if it was you in Afghanistan right now, you would be doing this too to save your life.
3) the airport’s tarmac is just overrun right now.
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15 Aug
To those who triumphantly declared “Pandemic is over” a few months ago… now we are in deeper pandemic with #DeltaVariant than ever before because we didn’t high filtration #MaskUp, #vaccinate or ventilate/disinfect indoor air—and ignored India warnings.
2) what pisses me off now is that we have truly endangered our children this time around. No vaccines for kids under 12 yet.
This is now the result — all time RECORD HIGH hospitalization in kids now with #DeltaVariant wave!!!
3) Also infuriating to me is how many used insider connections to profiteer off of massive secret back channels during the pandemic.
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14 Aug
⚠️DISTORTING DEATH TREND—Florida changed how it reports #COVID19 deaths. Result? Fewer recent “new deaths”. While deaths looks like going “down”—in actuality—deaths are going up in the more common reporting method, by taking advantage of delays. Lowdown—🧵
sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl…
2) “Just as a highly contagious new delta variant sent Florida into a vicious COVID-19 surge, the state Department of Health changed the way it reports cases and deaths attributed to the virus.
The result: Florida no longer provides a real-time picture of how COVID is impacting”
3) The most dramatic example is that Florida’s daily death count had been trending upward since the end of June, but with the recent adjustments, the number of deaths due to COVID appeared to decline dramatically over the past week. At least on paper. ⚠️
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