🧵Nationally, COVID hospitalizations under insurance contracts on avg cost $29,000, or $156,000 for patients requiring ICU care. In the U.S. 29,000 children have been hospitalized for COVID. +1,000 died. COVID is not harmless in children. A few stories #TheySurvivedCovid 1/X
4 month old Grayson Perry is one of 279 children in Texas currently hospitalized for COVID #TheySurvivedCovid 2/X
4 month old, Hudson Hooten was coinfected with COVID and RSV and required intensive care for oxygen therapy at Children's Medical Center in Dallas Texas. #TheySurvivedCovid 3/ fox4news.com/news/north-tex…
2 y.o. Adrian James from Mt. Vernon, Illinois, spent five days on a ventilator while battling COVID-19. #TheySurvivedCovid 7/
In Slidell, Louisiana vaccinated parents Gina Allen & her husband lived a nightmare. Her 4 kids, all under 12 tested + for COVID. Her 5 mo baby girl & 2 y.o son were hospitalized. The 5 mo. old was on an assisted breathing machine. #TheySurvivedCovid 8/ wdsu.com/article/its-ju…
8 month old little Leya from San Diego California became paralyzed from Guillain-Barré due to COVID. She was unable to move her hands, legs or take full breaths so was placed on life support. 47 days later she moved for the first time #TheySurvivedCovid 9/ nbcsandiego.com/news/local/bab…
9 months ago, Avella Bauer from Minnesota was an active 8 y.o., then began losing her ability to see, speak and move due to Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) from COVID #TheySurvivedCovid 11/ fox5atlanta.com/news/bloomingt…
3 y.o. Aurora Cannon from Tulsa #Oklahoma battled COVID-19 in The Children's Hospital at Saint Francis. She was released after a 12-day stay. #TheySurvivedCovid 12/
4 y.o. Quincy Pool Jr. from Atlanta Georgia fell ill to #MISC due to COVID, requiring surgery to relieve swelling in his arms. He is learning how to use his hands again. #TheySurvivedCovid 13/ 11alive.com/article/news/h…
Shortly after 14 y.o. Daniel Salinas recovered from COVID, his behavior began to change. He developed a migraine, then began talking to himself. He was rushed to UC Irvine and diagnosed with COVID psychosis. #TheySurvivedCovidlosangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/08/09/exc…
6 y.o. Zyaire Bell from Las Vegas #Nevada underwent more than a half-dozen surgeries as doctors worked to save his life as he suffered from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children due to COVID. #TheySurvivedCovid 15/ ksltv.com/475551/nevada-…
The Omicron variant is more infectious than previous variants of COVID, as a result more unvaccinated children will become severely ill and hospitalized.
30 more stories of children severely ill from COVID
💔 18-year old Sara Golembiewski from Westlake Ohio was the only vaccinated person in her family. Two weeks after Thanksgiving, Sara’s 59 y.o. aunt, 46 y.o. father and 57 y.o. mother all died from COVID. Sara also has a 15 y.o. brother. #SoulsLostToCovidnews5cleveland.com/news/local-new…
“I was the only vaccinated one in my family,” she said. “I told them to go to the hospital and they didn’t listen to me. I knew something bad was going to happen.”
On Dec. 7, Golembiewski went to check on her aunt because she wasn’t answering her phone. She found her dead.
“My dad was on the floor literally bawling because he lost his sister,” she said.
Dr. Patricia (Trish) Hom, MD, MPH passed away on December 27th, in San Francisco, California, from lung cancer. She was 40 years old. She took her last breath while she was on home hospice, surrounded by her family. gofund.me/ca39493f
The following is quoted directly from her GoFundMe, which will be used to cover funeral expenses and end of life costs. Additional funds will support her two sons Nathan and Andrew, who are students at UCLA and UC Davis, respectively.
A native of San Francisco, Trish attended Hoover Middle School and Lowell High School. Shortly after graduating from high school, she had two beautiful sons.
15 y.o. Kurt Ryan, a sophomore at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts known for his reddish-blonde afro, sense of humor, and love of video games, died from COVID on January 4, 2022. #SoulsLostToCovidgloucestertimes.com/news/covid-19-…
"One of the things that made Kurt stand out was his huge afro, his family said. They estimated Kurt had not cut his hair in six years."
"The family said he was not your average 15-year-old. They described him as wholesome, good and morally kind with the best laugh. People were reaching out to talk about his a good sense of humor and how funny he was."
My first job was at a Dunkin Donuts. After I served in Iraq as a corpsman, I used the GI Bill to attend community college in Cali. I’m fortunate to have graduated from top programs in the U.S. to be an ER doctor.
“Low skill workers” have academic skills, just not the support.
The GI Bill is a godsend. It gave me the time to learn how to learn. Many of my college classmates had college funds established.
People don’t want to work “low skill jobs” but when you’re living check to check you do what you have to do to survive.
In April 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced Futures for Frontliners, inspired by the G.I. Bill making 625,000 essential workers in Michigan eligible for free college that served during the pandemic. freep.com/story/news/edu…
"She was afraid, she was very careful, the most careful in the house. She had a small bag with just the mask, alcohol gel, she washed her hands, came home from school and took a shower, sometimes I wanted to go for a walk, and she told me put the mask on."
"I love my daughter a lot. I just want God to comfort my heart more, because it's not easy to lose a daughter. I never imagined losing my daughter, especially to this disease."
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has ordered a 30-day state of emergency, citing a 500% spike in hospitalizations over the last few weeks. wjla.com/news/local/mar…
1,000 members of the Maryland National Guard are activated to assist with testing, opening 20 test sites outside hospitals across the state.
He said the state of emergency allows the state to regulate hospital utilization and licensing requirements for health care providers.
He said that more than 80 percent of COVID-related hospitalizations are from unvaccinated or under-vaccinated people, saying they are “facts, not opinions.”