The pandemic is not over. Deaths due to Omicron are increasing for the fifth week in a row. More than 500,000 #SoulsLostToCovid in the past 5 weeks @mvankerkhove
"This virus continues to be dangerous. This virus transmits very efficiently between people, but there is a lot that you can do... We need to drive transmission down" @mvankerkhove
The World Health Organization is analyzing the decline slope of epidemic curves as a signal of Omicron reinfection with BA.2. However, it's still too early to know if people can become reinfected. @mvankerkhove
π§΅Omicron is not mild in children. Upper airway viral infection may result in swelling and difficultly breathing. 2 y.o. Bryce "was turning blue around the lips... You can tell he was tired," said mom, an ICU nurse. #KidsLivingWithCovidminnesota.cbslocal.com/2022/01/10/omiβ¦
Children under the age of 5 remain vulnerable to COVID, because vaccines are not available. Croup is an upper airway viral infection in children that obstructs breathing causing stridor and a barking cough as shown here. #KidsLivingWithCovid
Because children have SMALL airways, they are most susceptible to having more symptoms with croup due to COVID. Loud or constant STRIDOR means SEVERE croup. So does STRIDOR AT REST (when not crying or coughing).
In #Mississippi a bill expanding death benefits to include HEALTHCARE workers that DIED from COVID... DIED in committee. Currently, the bill ONLY includes firefighters and law enforcement, DESPITE healthcare workers face-to-face with COVID over 2 yrs. wjtv.com/news/politics/β¦
The proposal stated that any cause of death would be covered under the Americaβs First Responders Act of 2020. Currently, it ONLY includes firefighters and law enforcement.
.@CTZebra has documented the 1000s of healthcare workers that gave their lives for this country to treat patients with COVID19. I'll share some of the stories of the families from her post who would benefit from this bill.
28 y.o. Diana Crouch from Texas suffered a heart attack and three strokes due to COVID while pregnant. She still needs help breathing and hasn't regained full use of her left arm. Parents named her son Cameron after the doctor who treated mom for COVID-19. #TheySurvivedCovid
Diana admits that she chose not to get vaccinated against the wishes of her doctor. mother.ly/life/news/newsβ¦
She and her husband, Chris, were both unvaccinated at the time and had just returned from a trip to Las Vegas when she fell ill. She says she didn't think she would catch COVID because she had previously contracted it prior to getting pregnant.
πΊπΈ 7 y.o. Adalyn Rita Graviss, second grader at Rocky Hill Elementary School in Knoxville #Tennessee died from Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis due to COVID Feb 7, 2022. "It was within hours. Her body just couldn't fight it" #PediatricSoulsLostToCovidknoxnews.com/story/news/heaβ¦
Described as a "mother hen" to all the children in the neighborhood, Adalyn had prayed for a little sister every single night for four years, her mother said. Her "biggest dream came true" Jan. 28, when baby sister Ella was born.
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare disease where the body's immune system attacks its own cells and tissues causing swelling in the brain and spinal cord.
6 y.o. Zyaire Bell from Las Vegas #Nevada underwent more than a half-dozen surgeries as doctors worked to save his life from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children due to COVID. The medical bill is ONE MILLION dollars. #KidsLivingWithCovid