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20 Aug, 16 tweets, 7 min read
📍3-year-old girl Aurora has difficulty breathing—hospitalized in Oklahoma with #COVID19. Her mom posted the video on FB to warn others. Aurora’s condition is deteriorating and may soon need BIPAP respiratory support therapy. Please protect our kids! 🙏
2) Even more heartbreaking is that her grandfather Tony stumbled on his granddaughter’s story on Twitter. Video was posted publicly by her mom.
3) If you want to keep updated on the story, Aurora’s mom shares updates on her FB. facebook.com/amelia.hickey
4) According to her GoFundMe. “Her family did everything RIGHT in protecting their little family including vaccines, mask wearing, and distancing- but children <12 cannot receive vaccine yet. Auroras mother is an ER nurse in the same hospital her child is struggling to breath.” Image
5) “She cares for numerous COVID patients daily, the overwhelming majority electing to have not receive the vaccines for various reasons. She understand doubts but knew as a frontline worker her job was to protect her family.”
6) “Aurora was admitted needing oxygen and over the past several days is now on BIPAP therapy with every hope to avoid intubation and a ventilator.”
7) Aurora did get hooked up to an BIPAP oxygen breathing machine last night. Improving. But this shouldn’t have happened at all. And BIPAP is not available in unlimited supply in hospitals either.
8) Pediatric hospitalizations for #COVID19 are absolutely surging like bonkers nationwide!!! The proof is in the data, not just anecdotes… see thread 🧵 below.
9) Both healthcare workers and teachers with kids are worried about infecting their children and their students…. this is a crisis nationwide and worldwide.
10) SHARE — please remind folks that kids are proven to TRANSMIT more - especially younger kids. And this was even before #DeltaVariant which is more contagious than ever before. We must mask & ventilate & vaccinate! Kids transmit - and let’s all keep harping on this!!
11) Don’t forget the lasting damage on people - it’s not just deaths and hospitalizations— it’s #LongCovid too - especially damage to kids cognitive function, even if not hospitalized. Btw, 2 points IQ drop is lead poisoning - COVID could be worse.
12) Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis has blood on his hands when it comes to kids… #DeathSentenceDeSantis. HT @MeidasTouch

13) Don’t let this be your home state or country near you as #DeltaVariant surges and schools open without proper safety like masks and ventilation.
14) please #ProtectYourChild.

15) Florida is one of the worst places for Covid worldwide. Leadership matters damnit.
16) Kids and COVID—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"

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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?
tampabay.com/news/health/20… Image
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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16 Sep
💡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… Image
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. Image
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14 Sep
📍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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14 Sep
⚠️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!
timesofisrael.com/more-than-10-o…
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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13 Sep
📌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.🧵
nytimes.com/2021/09/12/wor…
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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13 Sep
Heartbreaking—5 kids are now orphaned after both mom+dad (age 37/39) dies of #COVID19 weeks apart. The baby was born by C-section while mom was on a ventilator, doesn’t even have a name yet.😢 Grandparents haven’t told the kids parents died yet. #vaccinate latimes.com/california/sto…
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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