OMG…. 10-year old 5th grader who died of #COVID19 in Virginia… was also recklessly exposed in school 🏫—how? Buckle up… ➡️The girl’s parents say her teacher willfully exposed her to the virus by making her **escort sick students** to the nurse’s office! thedailybeast.com/10-year-old-te…
2) Authorities at Suffolk Public Schools are now investigating that claim. Anthonette Ward, a spokesperson for the school district, told The Virginian-Pilot that, if true, the move would be a violation of school policy. pilotonline.com/news/health/vp…
3) Teresa Sperry, a fifth-grader at Hillpoint Elementary School, died last week, just five days after she first began experiencing a headache. The family was notified by health officials that she had tested positive for COVID two days after her death, according to the Pilot.
4) Her parents have said they followed all safety measures to protect Teresa from the virus, even driving their kids to school to limit their potential exposure to COVID on the school bus.
5) But they say Teresa’s teacher routinely had her accompany other sick children to the nurse’s office.
“That was her classroom job,” Jeff Sperry was quoted telling the Pilot. 🔥
6) In case we still need a reminder—but KIDS ARE NOT IMMUNE TO #COVID19 — nor even “practically immune” or “equal to vaccinated” — not matter what half baked “experts” out there says. History will remember who they all are—and history won’t be kind to them.
7) Bring on the vaccine for kids 5-11… coming sometime after Halloween they estimate. Not soon enough! #vaccinate
So I hired a guy (let’s call him Gus) to paint my house—but Gus is unvaccinated. House is empty—so I hired him & chatted with him daily (w/🪟open) hoping he might consider. Day 3—Gus got #vaccinated this morning—he chose Moderna for lowest breakthroughs. Convince your neighbors!
2) I tried lots of lines of reasonings with him — hospitals are full — help keep hospitals empty for others. They seemed to work. It seems he lives a solitary life and mostly watches TV. So there wasn’t many real people for him to talk to. So some casual conversation eased him in
3) I pulled out my phone and showed him lots of CDC graphs and charts. He at first wanted J&J, which I said was good. But he just wanted to not goto the hospital, which I pointed out Moderna had lowest breakthroughs & higher efficacy than 1-shot J&J against hospitalization: see👇
BATHROOMS. RESTAURANTS. SCHOOL CLASSROOMS. OFFICES. Not just hospitals and clinics. The virus can linger in the air for hours. Forget outdated 6-feet droplet 💧rule. Huge superspreading outbreaks from aerosols have been documented. REPEAT: #COVIDisAirborne - pass it on! #COVID19
2) A single case led to a hospital outbreak - despite the max number of people just being 4. The virus stayed in the air for hours infecting many more people.
3) How is aerosol different from large droplets? aerosol study indicates that coronavirus is persistent and stable for many hours. Typical air exchange every 20 min to 4 hrs, depending on ventilation. #COVID19
🏳A fuming top #NationalSecurity friend told me—“not having kids vaccine approved yet is like being in a 2-year World War but still having a Federal Bullet Committee casually debating (instead of expediting) if we are ready to send bullets to our troops dying in the trenches!” 🧵
2) This retired top national security friend has served in multiple WH administrations, and handled multiple global crises. He is completely disgusted that the FDA is going to casually wait till the 26th of October to meet. #YoungBloodOnTheirHands was his suggested hash.
⚠️KIDS & YOUNG ADULT DEATHS—An inconvenient horrible reality of #DeltaVariant is just how many young people are dying— both % deaths where ~8% of deaths in kids 5-14 are #COVID19, plus 10x⬆️ spike of age 15-24 per capita deaths! 👀 #vaccinate 🧵
2) it is horrible. But I say “inconvenient reality” because many governments - from provinces to states around the world are ignoring this in efforts to push “learn to live with the virus”. That is abominable. Kids are not immune to #COVID19, not matter how many pretend it is.
📍ORPHANED—The number of U.S. children orphaned during the #COVID19 pandemic likely larger than previously estimated—120,000—the toll has been far greater among Black & Hispanic Americans. And this only included up to Feb 2021– more during #DeltaVariant. apnews.com/article/corona…
2) more than 120,000 U.S. children lost a parent or grandparent who was a primary provider of financial support & care, the study found. Another 22,000 children experienced the death of a secondary caregiver —eg a grandparent who provided housing but not other basic needs.
3) In many instances, surviving parents or other relatives remained to provide for these children. But the researchers used the term “orphanhood” in their study as they attempted to estimate how many children’s lives were upended.
GET HEPA FILTERS—Real-world data show that filters clean COVID-causing virus from air. An inexpensive portable #HEPA filter efficiently screened #SARSCoV2 and other disease-causing organisms from hospital air. #COVIDisAirborne#COVID19
2) “This study suggests that HEPA air cleaners, which remain little-used in Canadian hospitals, are a cheap and easy way to reduce risk from airborne pathogens,” says @DFisman, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto, Canada, who was not involved in the research.
3) And the scientists found that the filters don’t only protect against SARS-CoV-2. When the filters were switched off, the air contained detectable amounts of other pathogens that cause infections, such as Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Streptococcus pyogenes.