🚨POST-COVID & Kids🚨
New @CDCgov report showing quite clearly that children are at significantly more risk for life-threatening diagnoses after COVID infection. Very convincing evidence that prevention of COVID-19 in children is very important to reduce childhood mortality.
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New @CDCgov report showing quite clearly that children are at significantly more risk for life-threatening diagnoses after COVID infection. Very convincing evidence that prevention of COVID-19 in children is very important to reduce childhood mortality.
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In every age demographic, life threatening and severe disorders are more significant after COVID infection. We also see a drop in muscle/neurological/psychiatric disorders post-COVID in kids. I have some hypotheses on that.
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This is true of symptoms (not diagnoses) as well, though less dramatically so.
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The full report is here, and while it has limitations, it very significant evidence that:
a) COVID is serious for kids (not to mention >1,700 kids have died of COVID)
b) Vaccination is a very good idea for kids (nowhere near these risks)
c) We must make schools safer!
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a) COVID is serious for kids (not to mention >1,700 kids have died of COVID)
b) Vaccination is a very good idea for kids (nowhere near these risks)
c) We must make schools safer!
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This is absolutely an #urgencyofequity situation. We need to ensure that we reduce the spread of COVID-19 by:
a) using masks
b) staying home when sick
c) ensuring schools have good ventilation
d) remote/home learning during outbreaks
e) vaccinating our kids
a) using masks
b) staying home when sick
c) ensuring schools have good ventilation
d) remote/home learning during outbreaks
e) vaccinating our kids
(i would also note that this is very good evidence that Vinay Prasad and his awful contrarian Brownstone colleagues should never be listened to when it comes to pediatrics)
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