⚠️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…
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.
4) CDC had put in indoor air guidance for safe schools using ventilation and HEPA / UV air disinfection. But sadly most schools are not doing this!!
5) If we don’t act and push strongly for mitigation, this is what can happen. Don’t let Florida and Texas let happen to their children happen to your where you live.
6) ➡️Listen—Dr Mark Kline at Children's Hospital New Orleans: "#DeltaVariant is every infectious disease specialist's worst nightmare. There was a myth—that children were somehow immune—It has become very clear that children are heavily impacted"

7) The IQ drop of ~7 points from ICU ventilated #COVID19 is astronomical. This study is prefer reviewed too - and comes from recent national UK 🇬🇧 testing data of 80,000+ people. Even 2 point drop is huge—that’s ~lead poisoning IQ drop’ And we see that in mild cases.
8) Many people pointed out that #DeltaVariant is driving a strong record surge in pediatric hospitalizations— those who downplay it or ignore these data are conflicted or have some agenda. The data is clear - kids are very vulnerable to #COVID19
19) many of us have been warning about pediatric hospitalizations with #DeltaVariant.
I’ve been highlighting that India 🇮🇳 doctors have reported serious outcomes of #DeltaVariant months ago.
20) “Oh, but someone should have warned us about the “Indian”-origin #DeltaVariant #B1617 #B16172 earlier” you say? Ummm, we did. Singapore MOH did too.
21) Did Indian doctors really warn loudly about pediatric cases of #COVID19 with #DeltaVariant (then known as #B16172 / #b1617) long ago??? Yes. ➡️ This warning was from >3 months ago damnit!!! @CDCgov didn’t listen. The same week, @CDCDirector lifted mask restrictions instead.
22) “oh India has low vaccination” some tried to dismiss concerns. But meanwhile here was #DeltaVariant surging the same week in heavily vaccinated UK 🇬🇧 3 months ago as well. It was ignored on the US side of the ocean.
23) Dear all those who said young kids don’t transmit — you were wrong. Dead wrong. And this was even before Delta surge.
24) Zero pediatric ICU beds in one of the largest counties in Florida. School starts this week. Mask mandates not allowed by state law. This will not end well.

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17 Sep
📌Florida is #1 in nursing home resident & staff #COVID19 deaths in August.

📌Florida is 2nd worst for nursing home staff vaccinations—only 48%.

📌Florida is #1 in new staff cases—94% of nursing homes had staff infected in August.

So @GovRonDeSantis?
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2) BUT—“It’s hard to assess the current toll of the virus on people living and working inside long-term care facilities, as Florida stopped sharing this data with the public in May.” ⚠️
3) “Federal data used in the AARP report lags by about two weeks, and does not include information about the situation inside Florida’s assisted living facilities, which are not required to report to the national government.”
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💡AMAZING BOOSTER DATA—New study shows 3rd shot has 91% efficacy (11x ⬇️lower risk) against #DeltaVariant infection versus 2 shots (>=5 months earlier) among age 60+. Plus, 3rd shot has ~95% efficacy (19.5x ⬇️lower risk) against severe disease!🧵 #COVID19 nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
2) moreover. The enhanced booster effects begin being apparent after day 12, increasing higher effects starting even day 10 after the shot perhaps.
3) most were not that elderly either 60-69. I’m also glad to see they enrolled 14% Arab population. The bulk were vaccinated in early February. Thinking of all the people who got vaccines before March that could benefit from this.
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📍NOT ENOUGH TO STOP VARIANTS—U.S. population immunity against #COVID19 still insufficient to resume pre-pandemic social behavior—still not enough #vaccination / natural immunity—need more masks & ventilation on top to prevent additional waves of variants. acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…
2) “The mean overall population immunity was 62.0% (CrI, 58.4% to 66.4%). Adults aged 65 years or older were estimated to have the highest immunity level (77.2% [CrI, 76.2% to 78.6%])…”
3) HOWEVER- “children younger than 12 years had the lowest immunity level (17.9% [CrI, 14.4% to 21.9%])” acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…
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⚠️HOLY CRAP—11% of Israeli kids who got #SARSCoV2 now suffer from #LongCovid, says study of parents of 13,864 #COVID19-infected kids ages 3-18. ➡️Worse, they also found #LongCovidKids even among 3.5% of the kids who were **asymptomatic**👀—that’s serious!
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2) More than 200,000 children under 18 have tested positive in Israel, with about half of them asymptomatic, the survey said.
“The meaning of this is that there are currently thousands of children in Israel suffering from long-term effects,” the statement said.
3) “these findings are in themselves distressing and call for further investigations into the effects of the coronavirus period on the cognitive/mental health situation of children in Israel,” the study said.
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📌Fake #COVID19 tests likely used by over 150 people to board flights home after a pilgrimage—Israeli police investigating.
Offenders could be charged with fraud, forgery and spreading disease—criminal offenses that can lead to 5 year prison sentences.🧵
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2) About 25,000 to 30,000 Israelis, most of them male Hasidic Jews, traveled to celebrate the Jewish New Year. Israel’s Health Ministry found that dozens of them had arrived back in 🇮🇱 infected with the virus despite carrying documents indicating that they had tested negative.
3) Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said in a statement that it “views with utmost gravity” the entry of people with forged documents, “willfully spreading a disease,” adding that severe action would be taken against offenders.
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2) this story truly truly broke me. “The couple and their four children all contracted the coronavirus after a trip to Big Sur in July, which included a stop on the way back at an indoor water park in Orange County, Serey said. Davy was seven months pregnant when she got sick.”
3) Ironically sad— “Davy was a labor and **delivery nurse** at Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center. Daniel taught **math** at Jehue Middle School in the Rialto Unified School District.”
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